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Octavia Butler
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Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler pulls a young Black writer from 1976 California back to a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation, again and again, to save the white boy who will become her ancestor. A searing, unforgettable use of time travel to make history physical.