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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

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#6257 of 8,085 books · #891 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1980).

Kindred won the Nebula Award and was a New York Times bestseller. Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present.

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Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-13
9780807006924
Topics
Slavery and its legacyTime travelRace and identity

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