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Octavia E. Butler

Book club kit - 2025

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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Published
Iowa City, IA : Iowa City Public Library [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Octavia E. Butler (-)
Other Authors
Janelle Monáe (writer of foreword)
Item Description
"Kindred" (287 pages ; 21 cm). Published by Beacon Press, Boston, 2025. Originally published in 1988.
Foreword for 2025 edition by Janelle Monae. Includes a reader's guide.
Kit assembled by the Iowa City Public Library.
Title and statement of responsibility from book title page.
Physical Description
8 books, 1 title card (in tote bag pocket) ; in a clear plastic tote bag (19 in x 14 in x 6 in)
Audience
580L
ISBN
9780807083697
  • Prologue
  • The River
  • The Fire
  • The Fall
  • The Fight
  • The Storm
  • The Rope
  • Epilogue
  • Reader's Guide
  • Critical Essay
  • Discussion Questions