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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.
… More »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.
« LessPrologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope.
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Add a CommentAmazing author, excellent book! This is one of the books I would recommend you start with when starting to read Octavia Butler! -- With no control over sudden incidents of time-traveling back to the antebellum South, Dana, a modern black woman, must survive periodically being a slave until she can find a way to stay forever in the present. Complicating the issue is her white ancestor, a slave-owner, whose survival Dana must ensure or risk her own existence. Butler is incredibly effective at conveying the chilling psychology of coercion and enslavement.
Very good. Makes me see what it was really like to be a slave. Don't talk to me about "contented slaves." Not true.
Fantastic!
Mouldering on the shelves of our Library sits the overlooked, under appreciated novel "Kindred" by Octavia Butler. Long before Audrey Niffenegger's novel dazzled the literary world with her time travelling Masterpiece, Octavia Butler wrote the quintessential time travelling morality-play, romance. It is not the same story, thankfully, but so similar in the way it will make you feel, that you will appreciate it like a long overdue companion to "The Time Traveler's Wife".
A woman travels back in time to her ancestor's slave plantation, thus engaging in a "grandfather paradox" of sorts. All "advisories" noted should not be taken out of context.