{"product_id":"9780807008096","title":"Kindred","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana, a 1970s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis young adult edition includes a new foreword by Tomi Adeyemi, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award winning author of fantasy titles \u003ci\u003eChildren of Blood and Bone \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChildren of Virtue and Vengeance.\u003c\/i\u003e Adeyemi was also named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s 100 most influential people and was named one of \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e 30 Under 30 in Media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s \u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is controlled and precise” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” \u003cbr\u003e —N. K. Jemisin","brand":"Octavia Butler","offers":[{"title":"Beacon Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-05-21","offer_id":45160692580607,"sku":"9780807008096","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c3468a24-ca3d-4466-a7cf-d598d69965ed.jpg?v=1712867610","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780807008096","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}