This is a letter that I wrote to my local Bayview librarian to promote Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as a book that our entire city reads together:

Dear Linda Brooks Burton,

I wish to recommend Octavia Butler’s brilliant Parable of the Sower as a selection for San Francisco’s “One City One Book” project. Butler’s prescient fictional tale, set in the urban dystopia of a permanently drought-stricken California in the year 2024, reflects many of the pressing issues that face our city and community. She deftly weaves topics concerning water scarcity, local food production, books, race, religion, politics, poverty and sustainability into her gripping story, and depicts a dysfunctional world not all that different from our own.

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