On July 20, 2024, Lauren Olamina turned 15. Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares ...

In "Parable of the Sower," the main character, Lauren, writes diary entries in the years 2024 and 2025, which mention a number of natural disasters including "a big, ...

For Witter and other readers of Butler’s work, Parable of the Sower is an awakening. “Even though I want to look on the bright side, I refuse to be blindly complicit in systems that keep leading the ...

Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others.

In “Parable of the Sower,” Lauren is a fifteen-year-old Black girl who lives in Los Angeles, in a cul-de-sac that is blocked off by walls, which creates a safe haven in a world of desperation ...

When the great sci-fi writer Octavia Butler wrote her seminal book, Parable of the Sower, in 1993, she imagined 15-year-old protagonist Lauren Olamina starting her Earthseed journal on July 20, 2024.

On July 20, 2024, Lauren Olamina turned 15. Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares ...

Octavia Butler's 1993 novel "The Parable of the Sower" contains a powerful and poignant vision of the United States of the future, one that rings scarily true in the present. The 2024 of Butler's ...

That’sthepremiseof Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower, whichwas published in 1993. The novel contains a powerful and poignant vision of the United States of the future, ...