Parable of the Sower Project

Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower was published in 1993, but imagines Southern California in 2024, facing environmental and social collapse. Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, our project will use Butler's haunting story to explore humanist questions like what our responsibilities to one another and the environment are, how we create communities, and what gives meaning to our lives.