REVIEW: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

[image error]Note: There are some spoilers in this review.

I must be a glutton for punishment to choose this book during a pandemic. But I generally like dystopian stories, and Ive heard good things about The Parable of the Sower over the years (Janine is a fan, I believe). So, feeling that it would be apropos to the times, I downloaded a copy.

When the story opens, Lauren Oya Olamina is a teenager living in a walled community in the suburbs of Los Angeles in 2024. Society has been ravaged by climate...