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Despite the difficulty in making time travel novels seem realistic, this book was brilliant. And that was because this was far more than a science-fiction style of time travel story. What made this book was the emotional aspect, the characters and the description of the sheer horror of the slave period in the ante bellum south. In particular, the obsessive character of Rufus was just amazing. You got so involved in the story and the characters that you completely forgot that the premise of the s
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3.5***
Dana is a young Black woman living with her new husband in their new home in 1976 Los Angeles. While unpacking books she suddenly feels dizzy. Dropping to her knees in a fugue state, she awakens to the screams of a child. She’s on a riverbank and the boy, Rufus, is in danger of drowning. What she doesn’t realize is that she has been transported in time and place to 1812 Maryland. Rufus is the only son of a white plantation owner, who is none too happy to see a “nigger” hunched over his chi ...more
Dana is a young Black woman living with her new husband in their new home in 1976 Los Angeles. While unpacking books she suddenly feels dizzy. Dropping to her knees in a fugue state, she awakens to the screams of a child. She’s on a riverbank and the boy, Rufus, is in danger of drowning. What she doesn’t realize is that she has been transported in time and place to 1812 Maryland. Rufus is the only son of a white plantation owner, who is none too happy to see a “nigger” hunched over his chi ...more
Dana, who is African American, and her husband Kevin, who is white are moving into their new home when suddenly Dana finds herself on the banks of a river where she saves a child from drowning then just as suddenly she returns home. After this happens again Dana realizes for some reason she's being transported through time from 1976 to a plantation in Maryland in the early 1800's, a time when Maryland was a slave state. The author does a very good job of describing slavery and how it could conti
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This was a 4-star read but it's hard to say I loved it because it was a really difficult book to read, due to the story. As Dana tries to keep her ancestor alive by getting ripped back in time, she learns what it means to be a slave & how a person has to adjust a mindset in order to survive. Her thoughts and feelings are engrossing as she's a modern woman trying to adjust to different viewpoints, and the way she sees things are fascinating. It's an important book that definitely leaves you think
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I read this as part of a bookgroup and worried that I wouldn't like it since it is partly science fiction. No worries - I thoroughly enjoyed the book. All in our group agreed that even though we of course knew about slavery, this book gave us further insight into the past.
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