“Parable of the Sower” is told via diary entries of a Black teenage girl, Lauren Olamina. Lauren lives with her family near Los Angeles, in a walled enclave shared by 11 families. Octavia ...

In Parable of the Sower published in 1993, Butler depicted an apocalyptic future through the perspective of a preacher's daughter, Lauren Olamina. Olamina's journal entry for Feb. 1, 2025 begins ...

The Parable of the Sower is told via diary entries of a Black teenage girl, Lauren Olamina. Lauren lives with her family near Los Angeles, in a walled enclave shared by eleven families.

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a ...

Residents face the daunting prospect of rebuilding their homes in this once-thriving historically Black community. Two weeks after the Eaton Fire, hundreds were gathered at Robinson Park ...

Lauren Olamina has survived the carnage of the first novel and set up a small but thriving community centred on Earthseed, the religion she has created around the tenet, ‘God is change.’ It’s the ...