Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler · first published 1979

Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses. The book is the first-person account of a young African-American writer, Dana, who is repeatedly transported in time from her Los Angeles home in 1976 with her white husband to an early 19th-century Maryland plantation outside Easton. There she meets some of her ancestors, including Alice, a free Black woman, and Rufus, a white planter who forces Alice into slavery and concubinage.

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Genre:

Fantasy, Science Fiction, African American

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.4 / 5 (51 on Open Library)

Year page:

1979