Kindred

By:

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur &“Genius&” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. &“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.&”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.Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead&’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates&’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction&’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. 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. &“Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise&” (New York Times).&“Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it&’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.&” —N. K. Jemisin This book has been published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the cover available.
Copyright:
1979

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
264 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780807083703
Related ISBNs:
9780807083697, 9780807006924, 9780807083055, 9780807083109
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Octavia E. Butler
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Reading Age:
14 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

No Rating Yet