TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Octavia E.
TI  - Kindred
SN  - 0807083690 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3552 .U827 K5 2003
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Slaveholders
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Time travel
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Southern States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284); Prologue --; The River --; The Fire --; The Fall --; The Fight --; The Storm --; The Rope --; Epilogue --; Reader's Guide --; Critical Essay --; Discussion Questions
N2  - 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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun
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