The Arroyo Book Club will be reading Octavia Butler’s classic science fiction novel Kindred for our February meeting. The library catalog describes the book with:
“Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth 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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.”
There will be copies of the book available at the library in the usual location (just ask staff if you don’t know where that is). If you prefer an e-book look here
We will meet to discuss the book on Saturday, February 24 at 3 p.m. If you can’t join us in person but would like to follow along remotely please send an email to ayosco@lapl.org so we can add you to the link list.
