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Kindred Paperback – 1 August 2001

by Octavia E. Butler (Author)

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324 pages
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324 pages
Language

English
Publisher

The Women's Press Ltd
Publication date

1 August 2001
ISBN-10

070434162X
ISBN-13

978-0704341623
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Women's Press Ltd (1 August 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 070434162X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0704341623

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724 ratings

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4.6 out of 5

724 global ratings

5 star		78%
4 star		13%
3 star		6%
2 star		2%
1 star		1%

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Sara Ghandour

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 on 20 February 2023

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Read through it in a day!
Wish there were more books like this one.
5 stars!

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This is a powerful novel. It is intelligent and generates deep thought 5*

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 September 2018

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Kindred is such an exceptionally difficult novel to describe. Especially when it comes to the area of genre. It has themes of historical slavery, time travel and at it’s heart a beautiful romance between Dana and her husband Kevin.
Although it is tricky to describe and review, I urge you to buy a copy! You won’t be disappointed.

It is June 9th 1976, Dana’s 26th birthday when she first meets Rufus. She saves his life from drowning in the river and is met with the threat of death via the barrel of a gun!
Dana then reappears in the modern day (1976). Was this a dream? An hallucination? Dana desperately tries to piece it all together. Rufus’s southern accent, the scenery etc.

Dana continues to be drawn and pulled back into the past every time Rufus encounters trouble. When Dana plays close attention to Rufus’s language and the dialogue of his conversations, she then realises, she is in a dark era of time. Dana is being transported back to 1815. Also not just any location but the Weylin Plantation where 38 slaves are held. This is an extremely dangerous era for Dana to be pulled into.

‘The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home’ – Dana

‘Paperless blacks were fair game for any white’

In the modern day (1976) Dana is married to Kevin Franklin. The story of who they met and fell in love is incorporated into the story. He is the only person to have physically witnessed Dana’s journeys into the past and has deep concern. It may be worth noting Dana is African American and Frank is white. Something Rufus refuses to believe, when she attempts to explain the future to him.

‘Rufus fear of death calls me to him, and my own fear of death sends me home’ – Dana

There are violent scenes and scenes where you see the KKK in all their evil glory. They are painful to read but describe the violence and dehumanisation that was inflicted upon slaves and free black people in 1815.

‘Strength. Endurance. To survive, my ancestors had to put up with more than I ever could. Much more’ – Dana

In the lucid moments in the present day (1976) Dana and her husband frantically search for a link between her past and Rufus’s. Their research leads them to believe there is in fact a biological connection of some sort between Dana and Rufus but how?

‘I was the worse possible guardian for him – a black to watch over him in a society that considered blacks subhuman. A woman to watch over him in a society that considered women perennial children’

This is a powerful novel. It is intelligent and generates deep thought. The hierarchy of slavery and violence is fully explored.
I shall leave some of the thought-provoking quotes I noted below. 5*

‘I never realised how easily people could be trained to accept slavery’ – Dana

‘There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one’

‘It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain’ – Dana

‘I had no enforceable rights. None at all’ – Dana

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Carmilla

A horrific tale of time travel.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 November 2020

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This is a frequently harrowing read and for good reason. Dana is a black woman, married to a white man, living in California in 1976 (at least most of the time). Because Dana is also pulled into nineteenth-century Maryland whenever Rufus the son of a plantation owner is in danger. The book is set mostly on this plantation and Dana needs to find ways to survive. Her race and education are at odds making it difficult for her to fit in with masters and slaves alike. Only her determination and courage allow her to survive in this terrifying past, and the brief respites she receives in the 1970's are shadowed by the fear that she could be pulled back at any moment.

The characterisation and dialogue are strong and well handled, and the story is fascinating. I wanted to score it 4.5, only because it took some time to absorb me, unlike Lilith's Brood which is one of my all-time favourite reads.

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La Young

Masterpiece!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 February 2023

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What a page-turner! I first watched the series and was fascinated, we heard how the show was being scrapped after one season so I knew I had to buy the book, I also see that the series had to be scrapped because re-writing the entire story in the form of the book would unlikely, the book was just awesome and was really gripping!

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Jacqueline Lambert

Well worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 November 2022

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Really enjoyed this book. Though it was one where the story kept going to and from different time periods it was easy to follow. The references to the ill treatments of the slaves was was a bit raw, but that was what it was like at the time.
Would fully recommend this book, once I started reading I couldn't put it down.

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Ecologist

A strange but compelling book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 February 2022

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This was not as I expected. It is a sort of time travel book but with a mystic rather than sci-fi base. For its time (1970s) it is an interesting insight into the contrast between slave era black woman's life and a 1970s black woman. I found the lack of explanation of the mechanics - why was her arm trapped in the opening/final scene? - a bit of a niggle. But the story is compelling and carried me through.

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