This month the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club slips between time in titan of the genre Octavia Butler's masterful novel Kindred. This is a special edition of the book club and will tie in with a panel discussion on June 22 in celebration of Octavia Butler's birthday and Juneteenth. Copies are available from the library in a variety of formats. 

From the publisher: 

"Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Kindred is held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history."