Review: Kindred

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was great. It reminded me of Outlander, as it was about a woman in modern times who repeatedly travels back in time to the American South during slavery. As a black woman, her life is endangered with each visit, but she is mysteriously tied to a young boy there, and is summoned whenever he is in trouble. A landmark book upon its publishing, it continues to resonate today. Well written, well researched, and well developed, this book was compulsively readable.

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