Parable of the Talents

In her longest and arguably greatest novel, the long-awaited Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler revisits her familiar themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, separation and community in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032.

Parable of the Talents continues the story which began in Parable of the Sower. That novel's heroine, Lauren, now has a daughter, and Parable of the Talents is told from the daughter's point of view. A ne…