Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler.
Edition: 25th anniverary edition
Series: Black women writers series
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Slaveholders -- Fiction; Time travel -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Slaves -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).