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SUMMARY:African Diaspora Book Club
UID:28523
DTSTAMP:20260407T132300Z
DTSTART:20260427T223000Z
DTEND:20260428T003000Z
LOCATION:125 Acadia Dr\nWaggaman LA 70094
ROOM: Meeting Room
DESCRIPTION:Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community
  with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surro
 unding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic cris
 is. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyper
 empathy--a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious 
 and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her l
 oved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignor
 es. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much m
 ore: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destin
 y.Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. JemisinLau
 ren's story continues in The Parable of the Talents. "In the on
 going contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time,
  Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."--
 The New Yorker
URL:https://calendar.jplibrary.net/event/african-diaspora-book-club-28523
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