In the not-so-distant future a teenager named Lauren Olamina lives with her family in a compound in a Los Angeles devastated by violence, drugs, disease, and food & water shortages. Her father is a Christian preacher who is determined to keep his people faithful and protected. Lauren suffers from a condition called hyperempathy which causes her to feel the pain of others, often to an extreme degree. When their compound is burned and Lauren's family killed, she and a few other refugees head toward northern California in hopes of safety. While navigating the dangers of the road, Lauren develops a revolution "religion" that could be the salvation of her and her followers. I read this book many years ago but revisited it for the summer Big Book Challenge. Much in the book is similar to many things currently going on in our country it's as if Butler was prescient when she wrote it in 1993.
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