Kindred: Gift Edition

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Kindred: Gift Edition - Hardcover

Kindred: Gift Edition - Hardcover

by Octavia Butler
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Book Overview

One of the 100 best novels ever published in English (The Guardian)- One of the most consequential novels of the past 100 years (The Atlantic) - One of the most essential books published in the U.S. since 1776 (Publishers Weekly)

The New York Times best-selling author's time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country's lack of progress on racial reconciliation

"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).
ISBN9780807006924
Author Octavia Butler
PublisherBeacon Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Print SizeStandard Print

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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.

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