Parable Duology: Parable of the Talents (Book 2)

"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched." — The New Yorker

Asha 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."

In the powerful sequel to Parable of the Sower, Lauren Olamina’s journals reveal the struggle of a woman divided between her young daughter, her struggling community, and Earthseed—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.

Parable of the Talents 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.