Kindred

Octavia E. Butlers ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.

A marvel of imagination, empathy and detailNEW YORK TIMES

The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives byGUARDIAN

One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has hadJUNOT DIAZ

In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.

When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, hes 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.

And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before its even begun.

This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.

No novel Ive read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essentialCAROLINE ODONOGHUE

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PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Unnervingly prescient and wise YAA GYASI

Butlers evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be humanNEW YORK TIMES

Butlers prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precisionGUARDIAN

Octavia Butler was a visionaryVIOLA DAVIS

An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and centerVANITY FAIR

Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct LUPITA NYONGO