Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower served as a sort of upside-down comfort read for a lot of people during the pandemic. It draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, corporate greed, and climate calamity -- as a teenage girl leads a rag-tag group of followers through a scary world. Two of the Butler's most famous fans, Toshi Reagon and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon have adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera, premiering in Michigan this weekend.

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Toshi Reagon, musician, composer, producer, co-creator of "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower" concert opera

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