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a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor.
Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
255 pages
chiefly colour illustrations.
At head of title: Octavia E. Butler's. Contents: The river-- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope.
Summary: Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word.