Kindred in Around the World in 80 Books

Dec 25, 2019 Tammy AZ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

How did I wait this long to read this book? Written in the 1970s, it holds up well (other than the absence of technology, of course). Butler's description of both the physical and mental agony of slavery is stunning. Showing this era from the perspective of a modern day person truly brings home the truth that this "Southern way of life" was a deeply evil environment that infected everything and everyone. I would make this required reading in every high school. ...more

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Nov 09, 2017 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: play-book-tag, historical-fiction, read-in-2017, time-travel, slavery, maryland, african-american

Dana, who is African American, and her husband Kevin, who is white are moving into their new home when suddenly Dana finds herself on the banks of a river where she saves a child from drowning then just as suddenly she returns home. After this happens again Dana realizes for some reason she's being transported through time from 1976 to a plantation in Maryland in the early 1800's, a time when Maryland was a slave state. The author does a very good job of describing slavery and how it could conti ...more

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Mar 10, 2023 Anna rated it it was amazing

This book was a little out of my reading comfort zone. However, I am so glad that I read it as it was fantastic and I enjoyed every page.

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Mar 29, 2017 Anika rated it it was amazing

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I could not put this book down...well, after reading the first three pages and deciding it just wasn't for me, that is.
Yes, it took me a few weeks to pick it back up and I'm so glad I did.
This book follows Dana back and forth in time, from her home in L.A. in 1976 to Maryland of the early to mid-1800's.
Out of nowhere one June morning, Dana starts to feel light-headed and blacks out, coming to on the bank of a river where she sees a boy is drowning. She rushes in, pulls him out, and begins CPR. ...more

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Mar 29, 2024 Camilla Cluett rated it it was amazing

It’s hard to put into words how incredible this book is. The subject material is HEAVY but whenever I wasn’t reading this book I was wanting to get back to it.

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