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In Parable of the Talents, Lauren Olamina’s love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches “God Is Change”. But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers — or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny.

In the second book of Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed Series, Parable of the Talents, Senator Andrew Steele Jarret, a violent autocrat in the year 2032 whose “supporters have been known… to form mobs.” Most presciently, Jarret rallies his crowds with the call to “make America great again.”

Read more about Octavia E. Butler here.

The first book in the series, Parable of the Sower, can be purchased here.