Zana’s Reviews > Parable of the Sower > Status Update

This is one hell of a midpoint Jesus Christ

"A team I wasn’t with found a living child being eaten by dogs. The team killed the dogs, then watched, helpless as the boy died."

🫣

"...if I were going to cry, I think I would have done it back when Dad beat Keith—when the beating was over and Dad saw what he had done, and we all saw how both Keith and Cory looked at him. I knew then that neither of them would ever forgive him. Not ever. That was the end of something precious in the family."

🙁

'Dad stared at him in utter disgust. “You disobeyed,” he said. “You stole. You endangered the lives and the property of everyone here, including your mother, your sister, and your little brothers. If you were the man you think you are, I’d beat the hell out of you!”'

Damn dad 😬

"Curtis Talcott says the new Iturbe family will get half-a-garage to live in after they marry Jorge’s sister Celia Iturbe Cruz and her husband and baby have the other half."

Half a garage??

'“We can’t make the climate change back, no matter why it changed in the first place. You and I can’t. The neighborhood can’t. We can’t do anything.”

I lost patience. “Then let’s kill ourselves now and be done with it!”'

Girl

"People toss us things sometimes—gifts of envy and hate: A maggoty, dead animal, a bag of shit, even an occasional severed human limb or a dead child. Dead adults have been left lying just beyond our wall."

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'Also, Donner has a plan for putting people back to work. He hopes to get laws changed, suspend “overly restrictive” minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws for those employers willing to take on homeless employees and provide them with training and adequate room and board.'

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'Different people frightened her in some deep, hard, ugly way. She didn’t like the Hsu family because they were Chinese and Hispanic, and the older Chinese generation is still Buddhist....

“Idolaters,” she would call them if none of them were around....'

Omg

There's so much infodumping for the worldbuilding but I don't hate it at all??

God I love a good post-apocalyptic story 😩