Kindred

A Good Morning America 2021 Top Summer Read Pick

The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us--along with her Black female hero--through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

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.

Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/01/2004
Pages: 287
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780807083697

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 73467 / Kindred


Review Citation(s):
Ebony 04/01/2004 pg. 26

About the Author
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, andParable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.