Butler, Octavia E.: Parable of the Talents

This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler‘s groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of the Hugo Award Octavia E. Butler‘s Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina. Brought to life by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the creative team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina‘s daughter, Asha Vere-from whom she has been separated for most of the girl‘s life-interspersed with sections in the form of Lauren‘s own journals. Against a background of a war-torn continent under the control of a Christian fundamentalist fascist state, Asha searches for answers about her own past while struggling to reconcile with her mother‘s legacy-caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future among the stars. Octavia E. Butler‘s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpieces are essential works in feminist, Afrofuturist, and fantasy genres, and this compelling graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Talents is a major event.