Tuesday, July 23, 2019

              Kindred - Octavia Butler
                 Oldest book on TBR

#2019AtoZChallenge - K 

Dana is a 26 year old black woman in 1976.  For reasons she does not understand, she get transported back to antebellum south in 1818 whenever a young man, Rufus, gets into a life threatening situations. The first time was when he was only 4 and was drowning.

Each time she is called back , her stay becomes longer and she experiences the horrors of that time. The reason she is called back does become apparent and so does her connection to that time in history.   This is a good historical fiction with a little bit of a sci/fi twist. 

Even though I do not read a lot of science fiction,  this book was more like time travel and it put a different spin on the horrors of slavery.    This book will stay with me. 


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