Parable of the sower

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Parable of the sower (AudiobookFormat, 2000, Recorded Books)

[sound recording] /, 12 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2000 by Recorded Books.

ISBN:
9780788747601
OCLC Number:
45001083

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Lauren Olamina is an empath, crippled by the pain of others. One night, violence explodes, and the walls of her neighborhood are smashed, annihilating Lauren’s family and friends. Now the empath must face the world outside.

Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina--who can feel the pain of others and is crippled by it--becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed."

9 editions

am I not getting this?

3 stars

maybe I was expecting too much because I'd heard about it in adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown's podcast and thought this was going to be extremely mind-blowing. I kept expecting the story to go somewhere, to develop in some direction but it just kept being a bleak, lost earth and people trying to just survive on it. seemed to me like the plot just fizzled out.

Subjects

  • Twenty-first century
  • African Americans
  • Audiobooks
  • Fiction

Places

  • Southern California
  • California