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Vacation book #6. In which Octavia Butler predicted Trump, 40 years before his ascension. Terrifying, gripping, powerful, and distressing. I’m so sad she didn’t get to an earthseed #3.
This is an excellent follow-up to Parable of the Sower. I've admittedly read them over a year apart, so it's a bit beyond me to do a direct comparison -- but this was well worth my time, to say the least. This is not an easy book; I set it down for several days because some of the things that happen in this book require time to digest, so that you can come back and face them again. (A luxury, of course, not afforded to characters in this book.) It's a powerful book, an indictment of slavery, inj
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I liked this, although not as much as Parable of the Sower somehow.
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