Question
A character in this novel commits suicide after failing to run away and being lied to about her children being sold. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel by Octavia Butler that opens with the line “I lost my arm on my last trip home” as the protagonist wakes up in a hospital. In this novel, Dana proves she is from the future using dates stamped on coins.
ANSWER: Kindred
[10e] Octavia Butler’s Kindred is modeled on this genre, which is exemplified by the works of William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglass, that detailed their bondage.
ANSWER: slave narrative [prompt on memoirs or autobiographies]
[10h] In this nonbinary author's debut sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, Aster suffers cruelty at the hands of the Lieutenant while on the spaceship Matilda, which is stratified much like the antebellum South.
ANSWER: Rivers Solomon
<Khushi Umarwadia, American Literature>
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