January 14, 2025

Next book: PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia E. Butler

Our next book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Hugo and Nebula award-winner, and Los Angeles native.

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy […] But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith... and a startling vision of human destiny.

Available from Amazon, Audible, and the LA Public Library.

Tentative meeting date: Sunday, February 9th.

David