On her 26th birthday, Dana is ripped from 1976 California and thrust into antebellum Maryland—into slavery.
Pulled back through time to save a white boy named Rufus, Dana learns he’s destined to become the man who assaults her Black ancestor. If she doesn’t protect him, she risks erasing her own existence. If she does, she must survive the brutal realities of American slavery.
In Kindred, Octavia E. Butler redefines time-travel fiction, exploring how the past bleeds into the present with harrowing precision. A landmark of speculative literature, this genre-defying classic confronts the legacies of racism, white supremacy, and survival with searing honesty and timeless power.
It’s not just history. It’s personal. And Dana may not survive the cost of knowing it.
