Kindred
eBook - 2004
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the p...ast: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery,...
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- Published
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Beacon Press
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9780807083703 |
Release Date | 2/1/2004 |
Kindle Book | |
ISBN | 9780807083703 |
ASIN | B009U9S540 |
Release Date | 2/1/2004 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780807083703 |
Release Date | 2/1/2004 |