Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Western

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Western"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm." Dana's 26th birthday celebration ends when she's ripped from 1976 California and thrust onto a Maryland slave plantation in 1815. Her mission: keep alive the white boy who will grow up to assault her ancestorbecause without him, she'll never be born. Every trip back grows more dangerous. Dana feels the lash, wears the chains, endures the daily terror that defined millions of lives. She can't just read

“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations

A hymn to brotherly bond and a masterful depiction of love in the 21st century

The Second Daughter is for the Wolf

In June 1993

wood blocked feel

have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods

Except I'm starting to think the real danger isn't the academy—it's what I'm becoming in this twisted game of power

Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love

5 inches in length by 1

the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach

sapphic yearning

and he makes sure she knows it