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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · Sci-Fi
48 Pulse Score
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In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
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