02377cam a2200469 a 4500 116528 116528 13337061 BJBSDDR 20230411090805.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 030909s2004 mau b 000 1 eng 2003062862 0807083690 (paperback) 9780807083697 (paperback) DLC DLC DLC eng n-us-ca n-usu-- PS 3552 B986k 2004 813/.54 Butler, Octavia E. 24920 (Octavia Estelle), 1947-2006 Kindred / Octavia E. Butler. Boston : Beacon Press, 2004 287 p. ; 21 cm. Black women writers series 24921 The River The Fire The Fall The Fight The Storm The Rope Reader's Guide Critical Essay 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. African American women Fiction. Slaveholders Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Slaves Fiction. Novela estadounidense 203 Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction. Southern States Fiction. Psychological fiction. lcsh Science fiction. gsafd Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm041/2003062862.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2003062862-b.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2022-08-05 0 PS 3552.B986k 2004 00000163611 2022-08-05 00:00:00 1 2022-08-05 BK