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'. 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. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM - In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. I don't know how I missed it before now ''A masterpiece by a matchless artist.The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel. I couldn't put it down ''Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. 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.
In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker
In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time.
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