{"product_id":"kindred-anniversary","title":"Kindred (Anniversary)","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInclude Reader's guide.;Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrologue \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe River \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fire \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fall \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fight \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Storm \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Rope \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEpilogue \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReader's Guide \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritical Essay\n\u003cbr\u003eDiscussion Questions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it's absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--N. K. Jemisin \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e, Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Walter Mosley \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Stephen Kearse, \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Truly terrifying . . . A book you'll find hard to put down.\"--\n\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This powerful novel about a modern black woman transported back in time to a slave plantation in the antebellum South is the perfect introduction to Butler's work and perspectives for those not usually enamored of science fiction. . . . A harrowing, haunting story.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--John Marshall, \n\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sixteen years after Butler's death, her legacy of fierce imagination feels more relevant than ever. With \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e illuminating so much of the most compelling speculative fiction, the book stands as an icon for recasting today's challenges--envisioning new role models and possibilities in the process.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Sheree Renée Thomas, \n\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Harlan Ellison \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Lynell George, \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e--Sherley Anne Williams, \n\u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One cannot finish \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now.\" --Sam Frank, \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Herald-Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Butler's books are exceptional . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations.\"--Dorothy Allison, \n\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb.\"--\n\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No other work of fantasy or science fiction writings brings the intimate environment of the antebellum South to life better than Octavia E. Butler's \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Kevin Weston, \n\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A celebrated mainstay of college courses in women's studies and black literature and culture; some colleges require it as mandatory freshman reading.\" --Linell Smith, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a novel of psychological horror as it is a novel of science fiction. . .a work of art whose individual accomplishment defies categorization.\" --Barbara Strickland, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Austin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Her books are disturbing, unsettling... In a field dominated by white male authors, Butler's African-American feminist perspective is unique, and uniquely suited to reshape the boundaries of the sci-fi genre.\" --Bill Glass, \n\u003ci\u003eL. A. Style\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOctavia E. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eDawn, Wild Seed, \u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower.\u003c\/i\u003e She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the 100 best novels ever published in English (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), most consequential novels of the past 100 years (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e), most essential books published in the U.S. since 1776 (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExperience the novel that redefined American literature by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower, \u003c\/i\u003eMacArthur \"Genius,\" and Nebula and Hugo award winner \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eDana's 26th birthday celebration ends when she's ripped from 1976 California and thrust onto a Maryland slave plantation in 1815. Her mission: keep alive the white boy who will grow up to assault her ancestor--because without him, she'll never be born. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery trip back grows more dangerous. Dana feels the lash, wears the chains, endures the daily terror that defined millions of lives. She can't just read about slavery's horrors--she lives them, bleeds from them, nearly breaks under them. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eButler doesn't let you observe from a safe distance. You're trapped in Dana's skin as she navigates impossible choices: submit to survive, or resist and risk everything. You'll feel her desperation as she fights to preserve her humanity while the plantation's brutality threatens to consume her. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis isn't historical fiction--it's time travel that cuts straight to the bone of American racism. Butler pioneered the neo-slavery narrative that inspired Colson Whitehead's \n\u003ci\u003eUnderground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e and Ta-Nehisi Coates's \n\u003ci\u003eWater Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e. But \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e remains unmatched in its raw power to make slavery's legacy feel immediate, personal, and inescapable. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou'll finish this book changed. Dana's story will lodge itself in your chest and refuse to leave. You'll understand, in ways textbooks never taught you, how the past lives in our present--and why that matters more than ever.\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, \n\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is controlled and precise\" (\n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it's absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e--N. K. Jemisin \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book has been published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the cover available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eEbony\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2004 pg. 26 (EAN 9780807083697, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Fiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780807083697, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Senior High Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780807083697, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Butler, Octavia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2004-02-01\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiction \/ Classics|Fiction \/ Time Travel|Fiction \/ African American \u0026amp; Black \/ Women|Fiction \/ Historical \/ General\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e African American women|Los Angeles (Calif.)|Southern States|Slaveholders|Time travel|Slavery|Slaves|California|Los Angeles|Psychological fiction|Science fiction|Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807083697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9780807083697\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67741963321625,"sku":"SP-9780807083697","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/0380\/5209\/files\/9780807083697_spiral.png?v=1791618128","url":"https:\/\/westbindery.com\/products\/kindred-anniversary","provider":"West Bindery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}