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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.
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Grave, overwhelming, bleak and earnest.
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- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Recorded Books, Inc., Doubleday
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Italian, German, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781411476073
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“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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