Author: Octavia Butler
Publisher: Headline
Paperback
Staff Picks: "Dana, a contemporary academic in LA, finds herself transported to and stuck in the antebellum South, on the plantation owned by the man who raped her her several-times-great-grandmother. Butler's brilliantly challenging address to the famous time-travel "grandfather" paradox was one of the first science fiction novels to tackle the legacy of slavery head-on. An utterly gripping read, Kindred is a classic that has remained incisively contemporary."