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Kindred e book5/18/2023 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. 'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN 'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.īut each time Dana is pulled back to the past, she finds herself confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. 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. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. 'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN 'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES Now an acclaimed TV series streaming on Disney + Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.
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