Set in a dystopian Los Angeles in the 2020s, the economy has collapsed, corporations enslave consumers, police are not to be trusted and Southern California is on fire and overrun by murderous gangs.Īnd on the horizon is a presidential candidate with support from a newly-emboldened Christian right whose campaign slogan is “Help us make America great again.”īut the foundation of the novel is an imagined religion Butler called “Earthseed” whose scriptures boil down to one central, mantra-like tenet - “The only lasting truth is change God is Change.”
Part of the novel’s current appeal is how eerily predictive it is. In October, her acclaimed 1993 novel “The Parable of the Sower” debuted on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Fourteen years after her sudden death at age 58, Butler’s affirmation finally came true.
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