The Best Notes says this about Kindred.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is abruptly snatched from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, has summoned her across time to save him from drowning. After this first summons, she is drawn back, again and again, to protect Rufus and ensure he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana’s ancestor.The Book Snobs Gathering
Each time she arrives in the past, Dana’s sojourns will become more and more dangerous because of Rufus’ obsessive need for her. The reader never knows whether she will survive one journey or the next. It’s only when she finally must save herself from rape ... that she is finally freed from the pull of the past.
The Book Snobs gathered at Sandra's home on Monday, November 29 for dinner, drinks and discussion. Sandra served a great salad and delicious homemade lasagna and, of course, a variety of wines.
Kindred was a great book for discussion. The story is of a modern-day black woman, married to a white man, who time travels back to the antebellum south. She is faced with many moral dilemmas as she meets her ancestors both slave and free and must learn to live among them yet still remain a modern American woman. She faces the possibility of changing history which will inevitably change her own future.
