Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
Dana Franklin, a 26-year-old African-American woman living in modern-day California,
finds herself transported back to the antebellum south whenever young redheaded Rufus is
in trouble.
Fact then: Somehow, my travels crossed time as well as distance. Another fact: The boy
was the focus of my travels—perhaps the cause of them.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Doubleday,
July 1979).