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Title	:	Kindred
Author	:	Octavia E. Butler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 287 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2004 by Beacon Press (first published June 1979)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Time Travel

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Paperback | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 83857 Users | 9762 Reviews

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The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given...

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Original Title:	Kindred
ISBN:	0807083690 (ISBN13: 9780807083697)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dana Franklin, Kevin Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Tom Weylin, Margaret Weylin, Alice Greenwood
Setting:	Maryland(United States) Altadena, California,1976(United States)
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1980)

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Kindred is one of those books that feels like it should be required reading for everyone. Its a page-turning, disturbing, provocative, complex, incredibly smart novel. Technically its science fiction, since it involves time travel, but it doesnt follow a lot of other SF conventions. Dana, an African-American woman living in late 70s LA, is suddenly taken back to Antebellum Maryland, where she saves a young white boy from drowning. Although she is inexplicably whisked home, she is brought back to

The ending was a bit underwhelming, but other than that I loved this book! In a story like this, getting a detailed explanation for WHY everything is happening is really important to me, and I definitely didn't get that closure. Open endings can be really great, but it wasn't what I wanted from this book.That being said, the journey was really enjoyable. Tough to read at times, but amazing nonetheless. I can't wait to read more of Butler's books!

After reading Parable of the Sower, I had to go right out and buy Butlers most famous novel Kindred. I was not disappointed. It is amazing that this book was written in 1976 and feels just as fresh and timely in 2016. Dana, a young African American woman who has just started a career as a writer in California, is suddenly and inexplicably yanked back in time to Maryland in 1815, where she must save a white boy named Rufus from drowning.This becomes only the first of many time traveling episodes

She had done the safe thing-had accepted a life of slavery because she was afraid.Kindred is a novel I would not have picked up on my own, but it was a book club selection so I dutifully read it. Although I do not think it is a great text, it is a good story. When I accepted the limitations inherent in a story about time travel, and focused on the aspects of the writing that are quite good, and not those that are weak, I found I read it quickly and was no worse for the wear.In short, the story

Kindred is a hybrid novel, difficult to categorize. Partly science-fiction, partly historical novel, it addresses race, gender and class issues in the context of slavery but, and this is the complexity of this book, in two timelines, antebellum Maryland and modern California. Butler, far from trying to make sense of time travel and how it suddenly affects the protagonist of the story, uses the sci-fi device to transport a free Afro-American woman to a colonial plantation near Baltimore to

"I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery." Actual Rating: 4.5 StarsThis was such an excellent book.Kindred tells the story of Dana Franklin, a black woman who is suddenly whisked back in time from 1976 to pre-Civil War Maryland in 1815. This novel is a beautifully elegant analysis of a not-so-beautiful period in American history. Using a prominent element of Science Fiction, Butler confronts the poisonous attitudes & double standards that are propagated by

Before Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, there was Kindred, a grueling plunge into American slavery with a fantastic twist. One of the great time travel novels, right there with Time and Again and 11/22/63. Aspects of the narrative might be too agonizing for the tender at heart, but I was with it all the way, from first sentence to last.