{"product_id":"kindred-paperback","title":"Kindred - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOctavia Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTomi Adeyemi\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"As you turn the pages of this novel and get lost in Dana's story, allow yourself to relive the horrors of slavery....Allow yourself to know the pain of our nation's past.\"--Tomi Adeyemi, \u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, from the new foreword \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis brand new package for young adults includes a redesigned interior for better readability, specially commissioned cover art by Carlos Fama, metallic stock cover, and spot gloss on cover elements\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 past: 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, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e and Ta-Nehisi Coates's \u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Butler takes one of speculative fiction's oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. \"Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is controlled and precise\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it's absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.\" \u003cbr\u003e --N. K. Jemisin\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including \u003ci\u003eDawn, Wild Seed, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower. \u003c\/i\u003eShe was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kindred\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748472488224,"sku":"9780807008096","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c3ab0626aa85538356688f75609ee378.webp?v=1779910357","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kindred-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}