Parable of the sower

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Butler, Octavia E.
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Parable books volume 1.
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"In 2025 California, 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 from her small community and its desperate savages." --

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African Americans
African Americans -- California, Southern -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Audiobooks
Coming of age
Coming of age -- Fiction
Dystopian fiction
Dystopias
Fantasy
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Literature
Religions (Proposed, universal, etc.)
Religions (Proposed, universal, etc.) -- Fiction
Science fiction
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Southern California -- Fiction
Twenty-first century
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Jemisin, N. K.,writer of foreword
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