{"product_id":"butler-parable-of-the-talents","title":"Parable Duology: Parable of the Talents (Book 2)","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003e\"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched.\"\u003c\/b\u003e — \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"154\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003eAsha was born into a broken world. To understand her own identity, she must uncover the truth about her mother, Lauren Olamina, and how their country fell under the shadow of a violent, far-right President promising to \"make America great again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003eIn the powerful sequel to \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"26\"\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren Olamina’s journals reveal the struggle of a woman divided between her young daughter, her struggling community, and \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"171\"\u003eEarthseed\u003c\/b\u003e—the faith she founded on the revelation that \"God Is Change.\" Under a tyrannical religious regime that views a Black female leader as an existential threat, Lauren faces an impossible choice: sacrifice her followers and her child, or forsake the beliefs that could transform the destiny of the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eParable of the Talents\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing, visionary exploration of a future that feels unnervingly close to our present. It is a story of resistance, the endurance of hope, and the high cost of transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40447162384469,"sku":"9781472263650N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/d31fc1e7-f384-465a-8db9-550b744e9cc3.jpg?v=1670752673","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/butler-parable-of-the-talents","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}