It’s an effective recap, clearly produced with great love and respect, but the book remains the gold standard. The blocky artwork lacks the subtlety to evoke the complexity of the novel or the vividness of its historical settings (in addition to the antebellum South, the adaptation preserves the 1970s setting of the “present-day” sections). This graphic novel recaps the classic source material faithfully without adding much to justify the adaptation, although it may find some new readers. The trouble began on June 9th, 1976 as Dana and Kevin are moving to a new house in Los Angeles, California. Her husband, Kevin, comes in, and the couple hopes that the police won’t investigate the incident any further.
Butler’s celebrated 1979 novel, here adapted into a graphic novel, starts with a gripping idea and builds skillfully, as both Dana and her white husband in the present are warped by slavery and become complicit in its evil. Kindred Summary Next Prologue Dana (Edana) wakes in the hospital with her left arm amputated. Over many visits to the past, she realizes that the spoiled son of the plantation owner is her ancestor, destined to father children with a slave, and she must protect his life to ensure her own existence. More than 35 years after its release, 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. Dana, an African-American woman in the 1970s, is thrust backward in time to a 19th-century Maryland plantation. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.
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