Status Updates From Kindred

They seemed to like him, hold him in contempt, and fear him all at the same time[…]I had thought my feelings were complicated because he and I had such a strange relationship. But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships. Only the overseer drew simple, unconflicting emotions of hatred and fear[…]it was part of the overseer’s job to be hated and feared while the master kept his hands clean.

I could recall feeling relief at seeing the house, feeling that I had come home. And having to stop and correct myself, remind myself that I was in an alien, dangerous place.

“Somehow, I always seem to forgive him for what he does to me. I can’t hate him the way I should until I see him doing things to other people”

I think this might be my Butler year… I need to reread Dawn before I read the rest of the series, and this one is so good so far. Why not her entire bibliography?