Parable of the Talents
The Earthseed settlement in the northern California hills is working — subsistence farming, shared teaching, a scripture in progress — when a presidential candidate who promises to make America great again is elected and his followers come up the road. Lauren's journals are set against the cold commentary of the daughter taken from her, reading them decades later and refusing to be moved. Butler planned several more volumes in the sequence and completed none of them.
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- continues ↑ Parable of the Sower
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