QS36501017547Kindred, Gift Edition

TheNew York Timesbest-selling authors time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our countrys lack of progress on racial reconciliation

Soon to be an FX Networks TV series adaptation with a pilot directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola), written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), and executive produced by Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain)

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

Danas 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 slaveowners 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 WhiteheadsThe Underground Railroadand Ta-Nehisi CoatessThe Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fictions 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,Kindredis controlled and precise (New York Times).

Octavia E. Butler(19472006) is theNew York Timesbest-selling author of many novels, includingDawn,Wild Seed, andParable 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.

• Publisher:Beacon Press; Gift edition (September 20, 2022)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:288 pages
• ISBN-10:0807006920
• ISBN-13:9780807006924
• Item Weight:1.25 pounds
• Dimensiona:5.38 x 0.81 x 8 inches