Day #9 of the 30 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatI'm changing the prompt again. The rest of the days are HERE.
Name a book by a black female author.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Cited by Good Reads as the first science fiction novel written by a black woman. I'm not sure that's true. I think published novels before it?
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given
It is among the very few Time Travel novels that have worked for me.
Name a book by a black female author.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Cited by Good Reads as the first science fiction novel written by a black woman. I'm not sure that's true. I think published novels before it?
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given
It is among the very few Time Travel novels that have worked for me.
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Date: 2020-11-07 12:23 am (UTC)Forgot to add my choice: Beloved by Toni Morrison. Astounding novel. Unforgettable.
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Date: 2020-11-07 03:48 am (UTC)There's a graphic novel adaptation of Kindred. But I don't think I can read it - the book was painful enough. One of my co-workers, Chidi (nick-named Chidi in my head because he looks almost exactly like him, except much darker skin tone) couldn't read it at all - too painful.