02880nam 2200745 a 450 991078274770332120231116183553.00-8070-8370-4(CKB)1000000000705871(OCoLC)646769144(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256074(SSID)ssj0000187478(PQKBManifestationID)11177544(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187478(PQKBWorkID)10135874(PQKB)10070678(MiAaPQ)EBC3118004(MiAaPQ)EBC6067046(Au-PeEL)EBL3118004(CaPaEBR)ebr10256074(CaONFJC)MIL487491(OCoLC)922967934(Au-PeEL)EBL6067046(OCoLC)1155998079(EXLCZ)99100000000070587120030909e20031988 uy 1engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKindred[electronic resource] /Octavia E. Butler25th anniverary ed.Boston Beacon Pressc20031 online resource (287 pages)Black women writers series1-299-56241-8 0-8070-8369-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope.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.Black women writers series.African American womenFictionSlaveholdersFictionTime travelFictionSlaveryFictionEnslaved personsFictionLos Angeles (Calif.)FictionSouthern StatesFictionPsychological fiction.lcshScience fiction.gsafdAfrican American womenSlaveholdersTime travelSlaveryEnslaved persons813/.54Butler Octavia E1032938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782747703321Kindred3723813UNINA