Parable of the Talents (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavia E. Butler
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Future, Twenty-first century, California, Oregon
- Locales: Southern California
Parable of the Talents introduces Larkin, commenting on the journals left by her mother, Lauren Olamina. Early in the twenty-first century, Olamina founded Acorn, a community of believers in Earthseed, a collection of philosophical statements based on the belief that God is Change. In the prologue Larkin reflects on her mother's death. She believes that Olamina was a misguided prophet who neglected her family in order to promulgate her beliefs. The novel is both an account of Olamina's life after the events of Parable of the Sower and the psychological journey of Larkin...
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