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The Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler, Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia Butler is a genius. This book is just as gripping as the first one, The Parable of the Talents, dealing with a dystopian near future that could very easily become our own. ~ Luami

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches ‘God Is Change’. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers – or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

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