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"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Octavia E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2016]
Series:Butler, Octavia E. Earthseed books.
Subjects:
Dystopias > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Psychic ability > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
California, Southern > Fiction.
FICTION > Science Fiction > General.
FICTION > Literary.
African American women.
Dystopias.
Faith.
Psychic ability.
Southern California.
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Fiction.
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Summary:"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy' -- which causes her to feel others' pain as her own -- sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown."--Book jacket.
Physical Description:332 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781609807191
1609807197
1609807219
9781609807214
9780446675505 (paperback)
0446675504 (paperback)