num_pages: 264
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 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.
language: English
title: Kindred
titlecomplete: Kindred
characters: Kevin Franklin, Margaret Weylin, Tom Weylin, Dana Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Alice Greenwood
genres: Fiction, African American, Classics, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Race, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 199667
places: Altadena, California, Maryland
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Beacon Pr