{"id":2628,"date":"2022-08-27T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2022-08-27T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:20:06","slug":"review-kindred-by-octavia-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-kindred-by-octavia-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kindred, by Octavia Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kindred.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kindred.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kindred.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kindred-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is a cross between Jack Finney&#8217;s time travel classic <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_and_Again_(Finney_novel)\">Time and Again<\/a><\/em> and Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1853728\/\">Django Unchained<\/a><\/em>. Written in 1979 and set three years earlier, it tells the story of a young African American woman who is somehow transported back in time to a Maryland slave plantation decades before the Civil War. She was transported there (for want of a better word) to rescue a young white man, son of a slave-owner. One reviewer said that the time travel part of the story was the least important, which was probably true. In fact, the book does take a hard look at slavery, racism and sexism. But I for one cannot resist a good time travel tale, and this is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a cross between Jack Finney&#8217;s time travel classic Time and Again and Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s Django Unchained. Written in 1979 and set three years earlier, it tells the story of a young African&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}