Butler, Octavia E., <br/><br/>
Parable of the sower / 
Octavia E. Butler. 
 - xii, 345 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>  Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.<br/><br/>Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith and a startling vision of human destiny.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781538732182 :  $16.99 1538732181 :  $16.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Survival--Fiction.<br/>FICTION / African American & Black / Women.<br/>FICTION / Coming of Age<br/>FICTION / Dystopian<br/>FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic<br/>FICTION / Women
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>California--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3552.U827  / P37 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.54