Kindred / Octavia E. Butler ; with an afterword by Robert Crossley.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807083697
- ISBN: 0807083690
- Physical Description: 287 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©1979
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide: critical essay, discussion questions
- Target Audience Note:
- 580L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 4 14 73467.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | YA BUT (Text) | 37810434412804 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Black Mountain Library | F BUT (Text) | 0020514072972 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/18/2026 |
| Boonville Community Public Library | F BUTLER (Text) | 30005100224883 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Bordeaux Library | F BUTLER (Text) | 31781069914065 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/11/2026 |
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