Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as
feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The
place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from
hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug
that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small
community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the
hereditary train of hyperempathy--which causes her to feel others' pain as her
own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into
the unknown.