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darlene d edited the characters of Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) Tuesday, October 6 2009.
- Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
- Added the description of Dana: Edana Franklin, or Dana, is the main character in this book, the heroine if you will. She is a black woman married to a white man in '76 Los Angeles.
- marked the description of Dana as not a spoiler
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annapi edited the first sentence of Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) Tuesday, September 15 2009.
- I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Shelfari edited the description of Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) Friday, July 31 2009.
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana"s life will end, long before it has even begun. "In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be." —Walter Mosley "<Kindred> is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now." —Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Truly terrifying. . . . A book you"ll find hard to put down." ¯Essence "Butler"s books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations." ¯The Village Voice "Butler"s literary craftsmanship is superb."—The Washington Post Book World
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) Wednesday, July 22 2009.
- Added a contributor: Octavia E. Butler: (Primary Author)
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