Parable of the Sower

In 2025 California, a time of urban squalor, rampant violence, and deadly decay, anarchy rules. 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 with a small band of followers. This book, and its follow-up, Parable of the Talents, brought fame to the Pasadena born Butler.