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De esta novela lo único que sabía es que es la obra más conocida de la autora pero no me esperaba nada de lo que sucedió: empezamos la historia con Dana en el hospital con una herida muy extraña en el brazo izquierdo, su esposo Kevin es el principal sospechoso.
Seguimos leyendo y nos damos cuenta de que lo sucedido con Dana es una de las consecuencias de una extraña relación que tiene con uno de sus antepasados a través del tiempo y del espacio: Rufus Weylin es un niño cuando lo conocemos y, al p ...more
Seguimos leyendo y nos damos cuenta de que lo sucedido con Dana es una de las consecuencias de una extraña relación que tiene con uno de sus antepasados a través del tiempo y del espacio: Rufus Weylin es un niño cuando lo conocemos y, al p ...more

A harrowing tale of time travel in which a 1970s Black woman is transported back to 1815 Maryland, repeatedly, for a purpose that she eventually figures out. On some occasions she is able to bring her white husband back with her. Dana experiences much of what it was like to be a slave in those times, and what she does not experience, she witnesses. Both she and her husband Kevin, who are both writers, are significantly changed by this experience. This is a classic and still very much worth readi
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This book completely sucked me in from the first page. The plot seems far-fetched: In 1976, Dana randomly wakes up in 1815 on her ancestor’s plantation. She eventually returns to her home but gets called back several more times. I loved that it was less a time travel story and more a narrative of life on a plantation. There are some difficult scenes of slave treatment, but it is thought-provoking, powerful, and creative. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

This book is lauded as one of the first science fiction novels by an African American woman, although at my literary society discussion there was an argument that time travel alone wasn't enough to make it science fiction. Well, science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction--it doesn't matter because more than anything it's a great book. Told in easy-to-read language with difficult-to-read subject matter, we follow Dana as she's taken back in time to the Antebellum South again and again to save
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Slavery and time travel. Solid read.
*Read on plane to Japan*
*Read on plane to Japan*



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