Parable of the Sower | Summary
Chapters 1–3
Parable of the Sower begins in July 2024, in Robledo, in southern California. It is Lauren Olamina’s fifteenth birthday. California has changed drastically over the past three decades. Water is scarce and expensive, there are few jobs, and climate changes have produced massive rains followed by years of drought. Lauren lives in a neighborhood that is walled off for protection from the homeless people, drug addicts, vandals, arsonists, and thieves who roam the unwalled residential areas. Lauren’s father is a Baptist minister, and Lauren goes to church...
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