Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, the novel is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994’s Nebula Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Written in the voice of Lauren Olamina’s daughter, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder.