{"id":1046,"date":"2000-12-05T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2000-12-05T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2012-04-25T05:48:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T05:48:59","slug":"the-parable-of-the-sower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Sower"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Parable of the Sower<\/em> by             Octavia E. Butler<\/h3>\n<p>Twelve people, 66.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">66<\/span>% of whom were female,             showed up to discuss <em>The Parable of the Sower<\/em>.             This is a near-future novel set in Southern California             after the USA has taken a turn for the worst. The main             plot is the coming of age of a Lauren, a young woman             who becomes a leader in this society.<\/p>\n<p>We liked a lot about this book: the &#8220;brain-driven&#8221;             female protagonist, the beautiful prose, and the             realistic depiction of societal crumbling. We wondered             how much of the story is autobiographical, because the             author is also a tall black<!--more--> woman who grew up in             Southern California. Several people were impressed by             the philosophies explored in the book, and they felt             the religious discussions were a highlight.<\/p>\n<p>If anything about this book disappointed us, it was             that this book has hardly any SF or fantasy elements.             It&#8217;s primarily a mainstream story, and some people in             our group like a larger speculative component in what             they read.<\/p>\n<p>Overall we found this was a well-written, thoughtful             book about an interesting heroine struggling through             difficult times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Twelve people, 66.66% of whom were female, showed up to discuss The Parable of the Sower. This is a near-future novel set in Southern California after the USA has taken a turn for the worst. The main plot is the coming of age of a Lauren, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}