"Kindred" Brunch Potluck
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Butler was a groundbreaking Black woman in science fiction, a genre long dominated by white men. In Kindred, she turns time travel into an unflinching confrontation with slavery, survival, and the past’s hold on the present.
It's tense and deeply unsettling novel about Dana, a Black woman in 1970s California who is suddenly and repeatedly transported to a pre–Civil War Maryland plantation.
Each return binds Dana more closely to Rufus, the white boy who will become her ancestor, and makes the past harder to escape.
Genre: Science fiction/historical fiction
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Pages: ~265–290
Year of publication: 1979
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