KindredKindred

Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from 1976 California to a plantation in Maryland in 1815. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder--and her progenitor. Her survival, and her future existence, depends on it. An unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white--and made kindred in the deepset sense of the word.