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Kindred Hardcover – September 20, 2022

by Octavia E. Butler (Author)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
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Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.  ("You have to read them.")

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

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.

Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, 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, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times).
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    288 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Beacon Press
  4. Publication date
    September 20, 2022
  5. Reading age
    14 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    5.7 x 0.99 x 8.3 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0807006920
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0807006924
  9. Lexile measure
    580L
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“A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail.”

—Stephen Kearse, New York Times

“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.”

—N. K. Jemisin

“Kindred stands as an icon for recasting today’s challenges—envisioning new role models and possibilities in the process.”

—Sheree Renée Thomas, Scientific American

Black Time Travel

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“The perfect introduction to Butler’s work and perspectives for those not usually enamored of science fiction. A harrowing, haunting story.”

—John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“In Kindred, 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

“Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again.”

—Harlan Ellison

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“A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail.”
—Stephen Kearse, New York Times

“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, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Sixteen years after Butler’s death, her legacy of fierce imagination feels more relevant than ever. With Kindred illuminating so much of the most compelling speculative fiction, the book stands as an icon for recasting today’s challenges—envisioning new role models and possibilities in the process.”
—Sheree Renée Thomas, Scientific American

“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.”
—N. K. Jemisin

“Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again.”
—Harlan Ellison

“In Kindred, 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

“One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity.”
—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times

“A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.”
—Sherley Anne Williams, Ms.

About the Author

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) is the New York Times best-selling author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, a PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award, 2 Nebula Awards, and 3 Hugo Awards, among others.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Reissue edition (September 20, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807006920
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807006924
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 580L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.99 x 8.3 inches
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OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947–2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science- fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius Grant’. A pioneer of her genre, Octavia’s dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women’s rights, global warming and political disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

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A Reader from San Diego
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a big reader, but read this in 10 days
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Outstanding, riveting, historical. I couldn't put this book down. Add an element of sci-fi in it and it had me hooked.
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5.0 out of 5 stars must read
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absolutely loved this book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the show
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the show
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Great book. If you saw the TV show on fx, this is better.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing author
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This book pulls you in. Hard to set down.
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Janet L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to the "woke" few! Absolutely interesting!
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2022
This was incredible, the way she conveyed the time travel story and combined the real history of slavery during the 19th century. Yes it's brutally honest about the treatment of slaves (a part of history that should never be forgotten) and at the same time shows the true compassion of humanity that also existed. I love time travel science fiction and this delivered a unique twist. 2 thumbs up
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good price
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024
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liked it it was like a Black twilight zone well done
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jaylark
5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular classic
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2022
I read Kindred when it first came out and never forgot: I went on to read everything else that Butler ever published. It’s an astounding merger of a part of American history we would often prefer to forget with time-honored time travel tropes. Highly recommend; not for the squeamish, since it’s depiction it slavery in the antebellum south is personal, dangerous, and unflinching.
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