This book. It’s more than thirty years old…but it’s as if it was written with today’s headlines in mind. Here is my book review Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
2024
This book has had a resurgence recently, due to the fact that it was written 32 years ago, but placed in the year 2024. This dystopian story revolves around Lauren Olimina, and her life in a post-apocalyptic world on Earth in 2024.
This novel is on the banned books list in certain states, due to it’s powerful look at classism, racism and climate change. Butler has eerily predicted in this novel a hate filled United States in chaos and internal war.
Dystopian
Novels based on dystopian themes are nothing new, and in fact of late there have been many excellent ones (Cloud Cuckoo Land, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Immortal King Rao, To Paradise, Station Eleven and many more) but this novel is unique. Unique in that it is 32 years old and predicts a world in 2024 that could easily be imagined. Although we have not fallen as low as it gets in Parable of the Sower, Butler makes us wonder.
Book Review Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Thank you for reading my book review Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. ****Four stars for Parable of the Sower. Be sure and see last week’s book review Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old by Brooke Shields.
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