Set in the 2020s where society has largely collapsed due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman named Lauren Oya Olamina who possesses what Butler dubbed hyperempathy or ``sharing'' -- the ability to feel pain and other sensations _she_ witnesses. <sep>, Pronoun: she <sep>, A: Lauren Oya Olamina <sep>, B: Butler