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Long Branch Book Discussion -- In-person

2023-02-15 14:00:00 2023-02-15 15:00:00 America/New_York Long Branch Book Discussion -- In-person Long Branch Library -

Wednesday, February 15
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-02-15 14:00:00 2023-02-15 15:00:00 America/New_York Long Branch Book Discussion -- In-person Join us to discuss Kindred by Octavia Butler in an informal, friendly relaxed setting. New readers are welcomed! Long Branch Library -

Join us to discuss Kindred by Octavia Butler in an informal, friendly relaxed setting. New readers are welcomed!

"The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.

Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present."

Physical copies are available at Long Branch Library. Please call 240-777-0910 during open hours to confirm before coming to the branch.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures and Discussions |

TAGS: | Indoor Program |

Long Branch Library

Phone: 240-777-0910

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