Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The 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.
“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).
“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
Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.
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About the Author
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. A nice copy of the second hardcover edition in black boards with gilt to spine. Some dings to top of rear board and top rear corner and paper scarring and rippling to ffep where piece of paper had been affixed. Otherwise, clean with tight binding. Jacket is unclipped with light edgewear. 2nd Printing. Seller Inventory # LPB010337OB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. A nice copy of the second hardcover edition in black boards with gilt to spine. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding - appears unread. Just a few faint spots to page ends. Jacket is unclipped with small razor cut to rear panel. 14th Printing. Seller Inventory # LPB008828OB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Scarce hardcover with dust jacket. Butler's Kindred is now very expensive if you can find a hardcover first edition at all; this Beacon Press hardcover from 2009 is almost as scarce, but far more affordable. First printing of this edition indicated by complete number line including 1. $24.95 price present on dust jacket. This copy is very nice, with a bit of minor soiling (from a sticky old sticker) on the rear dust jacket panel, and a small bit of soiling on the bottom page edges. One page with a corner turn. Hard to find in the first printing, though! Seller Inventory # 001032