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©2000
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xiii, 375 pages ; 21 cm
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"Featuring a new foreword by acclaimed actor and author Levar Burton"--Front cover
"Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy--a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny." -
Afterword : Three reads by N.K. Jemisin. (Foreword from 2019 edition)
Includes Reading Group Guide and an excerpt from "Parable of the Talents."
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