Kindred in The Dusty Bookshelf

Dec 20, 2020 Amy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, classic, feminism, literary-fiction, best-reads, diverse, read-in-2020, bipoc-author

thrilled that I joined the Feminist Book Club. This was the December pick. I don’t know why I hadn’t read anything by Butler before this novel-- maybe because I don’t read a lot of sci-fci or futurism. It's absolutely a must read!

Dana, a woman in 1976 San Francisco, is transported from her home to the antebellum South. Anytime Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning. She's related to Rufus--"Maybe he was my several times great grandfather, but still vaguely alive in the memory of ...more

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Feb 25, 2025 Diana Varey rated it really liked it

4.5 stars. I read this for Black History Month as it's been on my TBR list for a long time (I have a lot of books like this!). I really enjoyed how Ms. Butler wrote this and the way she put the reader in the middle of the antebellum south during the years of slavery. It wasn't easy to be there and feel the horrors and inequality of white vs. black, but so important to be educated and confronted with the injustices of that time and against human beings that had a different skin color. Octavia But ...more

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May 06, 2018 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: bipoc-protagonists-and-authors

Loved this book. I read Parable of the Sower with my book club this last year and really enjoyed it, so I decided to check out some more of Butler's work. Kindred is excellent on many levels. First off, it's a fascinating idea. The main character, Dana, keeps getting pulled back through time and space every time this one person, Rufus Weylin, is in serious trouble. The catch? Aside from unexpected time travel? Dana's black, Rufus is white, and it's 1815. Yikes. This book is also interesting beca ...more

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