Octavia Butler’s novel “The Parable of the Sower” begins in 2024 — even though it was written decades earlier. But we’re here now, and the book seems more like an oracle than a work of fiction. What are the lessons and the hopes that we can learn from this novel as we stare down a collapsing climate, a society more divided than in our recent memory, and a looming election that could change the course of America as we know it?

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