Bottom Book Club | Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Thu, Jun 26
|Ebony & Ivory Brewing
Our next book club features the classic, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Ebony & Ivory Brewing, 2300 N Central St #101, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA
About the Event
Join us for our next book club, where we'll dive into the dystopian classic, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. The Bottom Book Club will gather on Thursday, June 26 from 6-8pm at Ebony & Ivory Brewing. You can purchase the book in-store, on this event page, or online through bookshop.org.
About Parable of the Sower
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 . .…