Transported against her will to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, Dana learns she must save the life of one of her ancestors, a white slave owner named Rufus, over and over. Published quietly by Doubleday in 1979, the novel follows a modern-day writer named Dana living in Los Angeles, cycling through shitty manual-labor jobs (much like Butler herself), and working on her fiction until she’s thrust into an inexplicable nightmare. Of all of Octavia Butler’s works, Kindred may be her most enduring. “I didn’t want people to feel that they had to root for it.” “I didn’t want people to feel safe about their marriage,” says showrunner Branden Jacobs Jenkins. In the FX on Hulu adaptation, they meet in the first episode. In Octavia Butler’s novel, Dana (Mallori Johnson) and Kevin (Micah Stock) are married.
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