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Behind the Bastards
This book picks up directly after Parable of the Sower, with Lauren establishing a community based on her Earthseed philosophy. She faces persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president. The book is also told from the perspective of her daughter, who is navigating the discovery of her mother through her journals.
And with regard to the second book, as we had Trump come into office.
— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 34
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 34
This book picks up directly after Parable of the Sower, with Lauren establishing a community based on her Earthseed philosophy. She faces persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president. The book is also told from the perspective of her daughter, who is navigating the discovery of her mother through her journals.
And with regard to the second book, as we had Trump come into office.
She's very much a character who grows up in a world where all the adults are stuck.
She doesn't really draw much attention or spend much time thinking about things like ecosystem restoration or changing the, pushing back against the government or the economic system that is impoverishing and inflicting violence upon people.
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 34
This book directly follows 'Parable of the Sower' and follows Lauren Olamina's journey as she works on a community built around Earthseed and the persecution they face under the ultra-conservative President Jarrett's reign of terror. This book also delves deeper into Lauren's relationship with her daughter and the discovery of her mother through her journal entries.
She really emphasizes that change is neither good or bad, but it is potential.
And so that's when I get into the third book and things I learned about the third book when I was researching for this episode.
It is not the heaven that was hoped for, but gray, dank and utterly miserable.
It's like trying to graft humanity onto a new planet and it's it's it's like if humanity were a branch and this new plant was a tree and like both the tree and the branch are kind of rejecting each other.
And so the whole idea of Parallel of the Trickster and what have been the subsequent books was, you know, the continuation of the concept of choice, choosing to either, live together, work together, struggle together, or fight and scheme and lose their minds, break down, die and murder alone.
