The Exoteric Book Club discusses Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, a realistic dystopian novel about chaos and despair in American society in 2024. Although, the book was written over 20 years ago, it touches so many things relevant in today’s society. Octavia Butler is forward thinking in her writings about the many things that are similar to things that are happening in our world in 2017. Communities are surrounded by walls with armed guards, economic collapse, drug