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march book club: parable of the sower by octavia butler

in celebration of women’s history month, we’re excited to announce our march book club selection: 
parable of the sower by octavia butler!

set in a near-future california ravaged by climate collapse, economic instability, and social breakdown, parable of the sower follows lauren oya olarna, a young woman with a dangerous gift: she feels others’ pain as her own. when her walled community is destroyed, lauren is forced to travel north through a fractured landscape, gathering fellow survivors and shaping a new belief system—earthseed—rooted in change, adaptability, and hope. both prophetic and unsettlingly intimate, butler’s novel maps the consequences of power, technology, faith, and survival in ways that feel at once distant and uncomfortably close.

published in 1993, the novel imagines a united states marked by climate crisis, privatized communities, and the rise of a charismatic presidential candidate promising to “make america great again”—a detail readers often note for its eerie resonance decades later.

can’t wait to journey into this incisive, impossible-to-ignore march read together.

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