parable of the sower is a book about a young black woman growing up during the 2020s as america, led by MAGA President Donner, is falling apart due to climate change, political reaction and institutional decay. It's written like a journal, starting when she's a teenager and kind if just picking up on how bad things are getting even though she and her neighbors are (barely) shielded from things by living in a gated community.

It's really good for young adult fiction. It was written in 1993.

The only thing I really don't like about it is there's no mention of socialism, just the main character inventing some stupid pseudophilosophy she calls "earthseed" that can be boiled down to 1) god is change and 2) we should go to space, mannn

CW: EXTREME age gap relationship, kind of graphic descriptions of someone tortured to death, and the sequel (which I haven't read) is apparently full of sexual assault and other awful shit

Also it was supposed to be a trilogy but she stopped writing the 3rd book and wrote something else before she died.