Characters in Parable of the Talents

Lauren Olamina

Founder of Earthseed, now leading the Acorn community.

Also in Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents

Andrew Steele Jarret

A demagogic presidential candidate whose regime targets religious minorities including Acorn.

Harry Balter

One of the early members of Earthseed, who settles at Acorn.

Also in Parable of the Sower

Taylor Franklin Bankole

Lauren's husband, whose own journal entries form part of the narrative.

Also in Parable of the Sower

Larkin Olamina

Lauren's daughter, raised under another name and narrating in retrospect as Asha Vere.

Marcos Duran

Lauren's brother, a minister in the Christian America movement who shapes his niece's upbringing.