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Kindred

byOctavia E. Butler

Genres: Historical fiction Science Fiction Feminism Time Travel Adventures Historical Fantasies Time Travel Adventures

Who is this book for? Readers interested in historical fiction, time travel narratives, and explorations of race and identity.

Topics SlaveryTime travelRace relationsSurvivalHistorical fictionIdentityPower dynamicsFamilyTraumaResilienceRace and PrejudicePowerFreedom

MoodSuspenseful, Melancholic

Female protagonist

RomanceMajor Subplot

ViolenceModerate

A Good Morning America 2021 Top Summer Read Pick The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

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01/01/2008

Pages

287

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ISBN

9780807083697

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