Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

“What’s the date?”

“It’s … eighteen fifteen.”

Time traveler

‘I think so.’ I heard you!”

this is crazy

The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.

for sure

I

Kindred begins and ends in mystery. On June 9, 1976, her twenty-sixth birthday, Edana Franklin is overcome by nausea while moving with her white husband, Kevin, into a new house in the Los Angeles suburbs.

Yup!