Book guide
Parable of the Talents
In a shattered near-future America, a daughter pieces together her mother's journals to confront tyranny, faith, and the cost of survival.
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About Parable of the Talents
In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Earthseed · Book 2 of 2
Content warnings
- political extremism
- religious oppression
- violence
- murder
- rape/sexual assault
- child sexual abuse
- slavery/forced labor
- kidnapping
- torture
- racism/white supremacy
- suicide
- trauma
