{"product_id":"book-16b6","title":"Kindred","description":"\u003cb\u003eExperience a new audio version of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking, genre-redefining masterpiece, selected by The Atlantic as one of the \"most consequential novels of the past 100 years.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1976, on her 26th birthday, Dana Franklin is pulled through time and space from her Los Angeles home to a slave plantation in Maryland, 160 years in the past. There, she discovers she is intimately linked to a young white boy, her ancestor, without whom Dana will never be born. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While only a year passes in Dana's Los Angeles life, her trips to the past, to Rufus, take place over several years, in which she endures life as a slave while forced to protect Rufus's many near-death experiences to preserve her own future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Blending the historical with the speculative and the factual with the fantastical, \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling excavation of chattel slavery in America, told in Butler's stark and evocative style. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This exciting new audio edition is narrated by award-winning actress CCH Pounder, who has appeared most recently in James Cameron’s\u003ci\u003e AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH\u003c\/i\u003e and Paramount Pictures’ \u003ci\u003eTHE NAKED GUN\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eRUSTIN,\u003c\/i\u003e the Max series, \u003ci\u003eFULL CIRCLE\u003c\/i\u003e, the Netflix series, 3\u003ci\u003e BODY PROBLEM\u003c\/i\u003e, Hulu’s\u003ci\u003e BLACK CAKE\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66870418440496,"sku":"BD16b6","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/16b6-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779997902","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-16b6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}