Hi again! Today is Day 10 of me sharing different book editions and covers from my Octavia E. Butler collection.
Today Im sharing Kindred printed by The Folio Society, Illustrated by James E. Ransome with an Introduced By Tananarive Due (she also signed it for me when I met her in person!)
I love this book so much, it was one of the first books I read by Butler and I was blown away.
What do you all think about this edition of Kindred? What do you think about Kindred itself?
I was told by a Butler scholar that Butler wrote Kindred as a response to a friend and classmate she had that wasn't being considerate of what our Black ancestors had to go through during antebellum times. He wasn't giving credit to our ancestors for surviving the horrors that they did so she wanted to show that someone from her era would struggle to survive if THEY were enslaved.
I then read about it in the Octavia E. Butler biography "Positive Obsession" by Suzanne Morris. (I suggest any big fan of Butler read this biography)
What are your thoughts and feelings about Kindred, if you've read it.