instant #1 New York
Times Bestseller
Winner of the 2018
Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Octavia E. Butler’s
bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in
graphic novel format.
More than 35 years
after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its
deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by
slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on
the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists
Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders
Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender
divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.
Butler’s most
celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a
young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from
her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she
time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one
where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a
southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives
of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own
ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.
Held up as an
essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and
a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000
copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history,
and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain
critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and
in the public sphere.
Frightening,
compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look
at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel
format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.
