“My friend InfoDva recommended this series. The Parable of the Sower is, of course, the first followed by The Parable of the Talents, which I haven’t read yet.
Let’s see how to summarize this. Lauren Olamina is a young black woman who lives in the United States in what appears to be a nearly post-apocolypse world. It’s not, though. Only that humans have destroyed the world. People live in small walled communities or else they have no protection. By “small,” I mean neighborhood size. Lauren has “hyperempathy” which means that she can feel what others are feeling. Her family discourages her from telling people about it since it’s something that other people are afraid of.
Lauren is developing her own religious beliefs and making plans to leave her community and try to find a less crazy place when her neighborhood is destroyed and most, if not all, of her family killed. She heads out and is soon joined by others who go along on her quest for a better place.
Despite the plethora of typos, this book was phenomenal. The ideas are not that far-fetched, given the state of our world right now. It takes place only a few years from today - 2024-2027. It’s not likely that we will, in this lifetime, end up there but I think it isn’t impossible, either.”
