Book guide
Kindred
A modern Black woman is repeatedly dragged from 1976 into the antebellum South, where saving one white boy’s life forces her to confront the brutal bloodline tying past to present.
Genre and trope pairingsSci-FiTime travelHistoricalResistanceHistoricalFamily sagaLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryDisabled repLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiteraryIdentity crisisLiteraryIntergenerational traumaLiterarySocial commentary
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About Kindred
In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. But each time Dana is pulled back to the past, she finds herself confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- slavery
- racism/racial slurs
- physical abuse
- whipping
- sexual assault/rape
- attempted rape
- lynching
- suicide
- violence
- amputation
- family separation
- ableist slurs
- child death
- self-harm
- suicide attempt
- torture
- miscarriage
- emotional abuse
- confinement
- medical trauma
