![]() ![]() ![]() In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. ![]() Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. 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. Butler "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" (John Green, New York Times)-now with a new foreword by N. Butler This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Community Reads: Spring 2016 | Between the World and Me.Community Reads: Fall 2016 | Citizen: An American Lyric.Community Reads: Winter 2018 | On Tyranny.Community Reads: Spring 2018 | So You Want to Talk About Race.Community Reads: Fall 2018 | When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.Community Reads: Winter 2019 | Heart Berries: A Memoir.Community Reads: Spring 2019 | Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.Fall 2019 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.Winter 2020 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.Spring 2020 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.2019-20 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. ![]()
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