Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler ; with an introduction by Robert Crossley.
Series: Black women writers series; Beacon paperback ;; 786
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
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 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: Bibliography: p. xxv-xxvii.