| This year, Mount Holyoke selected “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler for its Common Read. A seminal dystopian science fiction novel, published in 1993, it tells the story of a visionary teenage girl who flees her Los Angeles–area enclave with a group of followers amid social and environmental collapse. The New York Times named it a Notable Book of the Year in 1994 for its prescient treatment of racial justice, climate collapse and fascism. Beryl Schwartz Steinbach ’78 led us in a discussion of this timely book on Zoom. The slides Beryl used are linked here as a PDF. If you would like to listen to a podcast of the discussion, please click here. |
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