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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (25th Annivesary Edition)

Paperback – Beacon Press – Feb 2025 – 264 pages

Dana’s 26th birthday celebration ends when she’s ripped from 1976 California and thrust onto a Maryland slave plantation in 1815. Her mission: keep alive the white boy who will grow up to assault her ancestor–because without him, she’ll never be born.

Every trip back grows more dangerous. Dana feels the lash, wears the chains, endures the daily terror that defined millions of lives. She can’t just read about slavery’s horrors–she lives them, bleeds from them, nearly breaks under them.

This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with “much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now” (“Los Angeles Herald Examiner”).