How long does it take to read Kindred?
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes takes about 5 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 287 pages, about 78,925 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Subjects: Fiction, Slaves, African American women, Slaveholders, Slavery, Time travel
