Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) Four Walls Eight Windows

A near-future story about society breaking down.  Specifically, what comes after and how a young woman survives the loss of her father, her family, her home and neighborhood to raiders and drug addicts, devises her own understanding of God, and finds a place to start over.  The story takes place in California.  The police and fire departments have become extremely corrupt.  Corporations are buying people and treating them like industry from the 19^th century.  People kill just to rob other people.  But in our heroine’s view, God is change and people can effect change.