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Feb 19, 2018 Melanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: scifi, historical, suspense, weird, book-club

This book... I never would have read it on my own but I’m so glad it got picked for my postal book club. It was heartbreaking and crazy and devastatingly sad and so, so intense. It was hard to put down because I wanted to know what happened next, but at the same time hard to read because what was happening was so awful and what was coming was bound to be worse. It is an important book - such perspective on what we think of as normal and human and how quickly that can change when faced with somet ...more

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Apr 05, 2018 Adjrun rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, fantasy-and-sci-fi

Brilliant and brutal and heartbreaking and complex.

It’s not really science fiction - maybe there was nothing else to call it when it was published in 1979. It uses time travel to contrast a black woman from the 1970s with her ancestors in the South in 1815.

It’s astoundingly modern for being 40 years old. It asks questions about power and race and gender and privilege. And key to it’s themes are that everyone - both in the past and today - bear the scars and damage from America’s past slavery.

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Nov 19, 2023 Jamie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2023-popsugar-reading-challenge, 2023-reading-challenge

A chilling story of a woman dragged into the past and learning what slave life was like while trying to find her way back to the present and her new husband.

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