Kindred

By Octavia E. Butler

Subjects: Science Fiction, Literature, African americans, fiction, Fiction subjects, Slaveholders, African American women, African American, Contemporary Women, Slavery, Time travel, Slaves, fiction, Southern states, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, african american & black, general, open_syllabus_project, Enslaved persons, fiction, Fiction, Historical, Teen fiction, American literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fourth dimension, Science fiction & fantasy, Popular reading, Slaves, Fiction, psychological

Description: 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.