I chose The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler as my school summer reading selection (I also am in the middle of reading The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker- there were so many good choices that I couldn’t select just one). “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 . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.” (Amazon) This was a good audiobook and I enjoyed listening, but I didn’t love it.