Kindred - by Octavia E Butler (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A <i>Good Morning America</i> 2021 Top Summer Read Pick</b> <p/><b>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.</b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In <i>Kindred</i>, Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be.--Walter Mosley <p/>Butler's characters are so vivid and the racist milieu in which they struggle to survive so realistically depicted that one cannot finish <i>Kindred</i> without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now.--Sam Frank, <i>Los Angeles Herald-Examiner</i> <p/>Like emotion that uplifts and enriches, like exquisite music or the taste of some special candy remembered from childhood, I never wanted <i>Kindred</i> to end. It overwhelmed me, dominated me, drew me on page after page. To express my total admiration and wonder for the originality of this surpassingly compelling novel, I am driven to a despised cliché <i>I could not put it down!</i> It is a book that simply will not be denied; its power is hypnotic. <i>Kindred</i> is a story that <i>hurts</i> I take that to be the surest indicator of genuine Art. It is an <i>important</i> novel, filled with powerful human insight and the shocking impact of the most commonplace experiences viewed in a new way, and it demands that once begun, the reader continue till it has done its work on the heart and mind and soul. Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and <i>Kindred</i> is that rare, magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again, through the years, to learn, to be humbled, and to be renewed. Do not, I beg you, deny yourself this singular experience.--Harlan Ellison <p/>Truly terrifying. . . . A book you'll find hard to put down. --<i>Essence</i> <p/>Butler's books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations. --Dorothy Allison, <i>The Village Voice</i> <p/>Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb. --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>Her books are disturbing, unsettling... In a field dominated by white male authors, Butler's African-American feminist perspective is unique, and uniquely suited to reshape the boundaries of the sci-fi genre. --Bill Glass, <i>L. A. Style</i> <p/>One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity. --Lynell George, <i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>This powerful novel about a modern black woman transported back in time to a slave plantation in the antebellum South is the perfect introduction to Butler's work and perspectives for those not usually enamored of science fiction. . .A harrowing, haunting story. --John Marshall, <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Octavia E. Butler</b> (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including <i>Dawn, Wild Seed, </i> and <i>Parable of the Sower.</i> She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.
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