Kindred is Hugo and Nebula Award winner Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece. An essential read which explores themes of racial and gender identity with insight and originality; for fans of the Hulu TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. 'A shattering work of art' Los Angeles Herald-Examiner On her twenty-sixth birthday; Dana and her husband are moving into their apartment when she starts to feel dizzy. She falls to her knees; nauseous. Then the world falls away. She finds herself at the edge of a green wood by a vast river. A child is screaming. Wading into the water; she pulls him to safety; only to find herself face to face with a very old looking rifle; in the hands of the boy's father. She's terrified. The next thing she knows she's back in her apartment; soaking wet. It's the most terrifying experience of her life ... until it happens again. The longer Dana spends in nineteenth century Maryland - a very dangerous place for a black woman - the more aware she is that her life might be over before it's even begun.