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Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler
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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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780807083055
ISBN10 0807083054
Series/Work OL35616W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Beacon Press
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

African American African americans, fiction African American women American literature Contemporary Women Enslaved persons, fiction Fiction Fiction, african american & black, general Fiction, psychological Fiction, science fiction, general Fiction subjects Fourth dimension Historical Literature Los angeles (calif.), fiction open_syllabus_project Popular reading Science Fiction Science fiction & fantasy Slaveholders

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