![]() ![]() ![]() Or at least, I did, until someone gifted me this slim little paperback. Even good food writing I find hard going. I have limited interest in adjectives, and food writing is full of them. It is the marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by. Here, she’s forced to protect her distant white relatives from destruction while they abuse her and other slaves. It follows 26-year-old Dana, a black woman moving in with her white boyfriend, who is periodically sent back in time to a pre-civil war Maryland plantation. This is often cited as the first science fiction published by a black woman, but you don’t need to put Kindred in the category of “firsts” to find it brilliant. The books, you’ll realise, that your library was lost without. These are simply the books that I want to push into people’s hands, that they might not find elsewhere. The following books have all endured some kind of success, some kind of loss, and at least a few of them will have you saying: “What do you mean, lost? I saw that in an airport WH Smith!” But lost, as a status, is a transient one. ![]()
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