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Kindred

Kindred

Butler, Octavia

Hardcover

Series: Beacon Classics

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 0807034037
ISBN13: 9780807034033
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.25
Language: English
A new Beacon Classics edition of Octavia E. Butler'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 slave owner'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).

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