![]() ![]() ![]() As with “Sower,” Butler wrote “Talents” in the 1990s but her vision of American society consuming itself due to the chaos of climate change and our unwillingness to adapt and change feels disturbingly prescient. I mentioned back in the summer starting and stopping Butler’s sequel to The Parable of the Sower, one of the best and most challenging books I read last year. Both focus on how young people live and grow and suffer and survive and learn amidst terrible circumstances. The other imagines a dark guerrilla war happening in a magical world adjacent to our own. One of these imagines a dystopian near future so plausible it keeps me up at night. ![]() Intriguingly, the universe has given me (or I have given myself) a chiasmic (not a word but I’m going with it anyway) pair of books: The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. ![]()
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