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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes Staff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kindred about?

The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother.

Who reads Kindred?

Author

Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes Staff

Publisher

Doubleday & Company, Inc

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385150590

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Travel, Children'S

Rating

4.19 / 5 (45,708 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14