{"product_id":"kindred","title":"Kindred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDana’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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKindred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is controlled and precise” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50538056876350,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/3364\/4094\/files\/91pIF5zxBVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1728391487","url":"https:\/\/100tsabshop.com\/products\/kindred","provider":"Taylor Street Art and Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}