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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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Read the first two chapters from Octavia E. Butler's classic novel, Kindred.

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 stays grow 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.

"Truly terrifying. . . . A book you'll find hard to put down." —Essence

"Butler's books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations." —Dorothy Allison, The Village Voice

"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb." —The Washington Post Book World

"Her books are disturbing, unsettling… In a field dominated by white male authors, Butler's African-American feminist perspective is unique, and uniquely suited to reshape the boundaries of the sci-fi genre." —Bill Glass, L. A. Style
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBeacon Press
Release dateDec 15, 2011
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