264 pages

English language

Published March 12, 1988 by Beacon Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8070-8305-5
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5 stars (4 reviews)

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.

9 editions

reviewed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)

Still powerful almost half a century on

4 stars

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reviewed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)

captivating

5 stars

I liked this A Lot. Got through it in a couple of days because I really empathized with the characters and was keen to see what happened to them. I think the book is based on a very interesting idea. The horror of slavery is described very clearly and I have the impression that I somewhat understood it.

Subjects

  • Slaves
  • African American women
  • Slaveholders
  • Slavery
  • Time travel
  • Fiction

Places

  • Los Angeles (Calif.)
  • Southern States