Scars of the Past: Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
Reviewing a Genre-Bending Modern Classic
When Dana Franklin arrives in the emergency room missing part of her arm, doctors and law enforcement assume her husband, Kevin, has maimed her. The truth is far more complicated.
Though the interracial couple lives in Los Angeles, in 1976 to be precise, Dana frequently travels to Maryland—not by car, bus, train, or plane. Mysteriously, she finds herself…
