When:
September 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm America/Chicago Timezone
2024-09-17T19:30:00-05:00
2024-09-17T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
Online Via Zoom
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Anne Melia

cover of the book Kindred by Octavia Butler.

For our September 17th  Book Club we will be reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.

 

To register, click here to email Anne Melia, JEDI book club organizer.

Here is the Goodreads summary:

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

To register, click here to email Anne Melia, JEDI book club organizer.

About the Author:

Octavia E. Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Born in Pasadena in 1947, she was raised by her mother and her grandmother.  She was the author of several award-winning novels including PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (1995) winner of the Nebula Award for the best science fiction novel published that year. She was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future.