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In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she was still a child. Her mother was a maid who often had to bring her daughter along on cleaning jobs. And she was hampered by dyslexia, was sheltered by ...

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Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” topped our 101 Best Book Club List survey by receiving the most votes. We talked to Nikki High, the founder of Octavia’s Bookshelf bookstore in Pasadena, ...