{"product_id":"kindred-1","title":"Kindred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Ta-Nehisi Coates's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\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\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is controlled and precise\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51096529994058,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/9780807083697.webp?v=1750255739","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/kindred-1","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}