A stunning new contemporary edition of Octavia E. Butler’s award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower. To understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. There are many things Asha needs to know. How her country could embrace a presidential reign of terror and oppression, why the people turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother. Reading the journals of Lauren Olamina, the mother she barely knew, Asha struggles to reconcile herself to the legacy of a woman caught between love for her daughter and her calling to lead humanity to a better future. WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
