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Kindred

By Octavia E. Butler,SparkNotes Staff

4.45 (47 Ratings)
496 Want to read19 Currently reading79 Have read

Publish Date

1988

Publisher

Beacon Press

Language

eng

Pages

287

Description:

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.