num_pages: 288
description: 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 26th 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.
language: English
title: Kindred
titlecomplete: Kindred
characters: Tom Weylin, Kevin Franklin, Alice Greenwood, Margaret Weylin, Dana Franklin, Rufus Weylin
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction, Race, Time Travel, Fantasy, Classics, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 199608
places: Maryland, Altadena, California
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Beacon Press