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 ...
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.
“Diversity programs” to blame, indeed. Lauren Oya Olamina, Butler's 15-year-old protagonist, goes on to start a new way of living in the ashes of the world she was born into. She also ...