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This book really surprised me. I mean, I heard it's really good, but I didn't expect to like it that much.
I had serious doubts if this would be a book for me. First of all, I've never liked the time travel theme. I don't know why, but it just never worked for me. Still, I can't say that this was my favorite part of the book either, but at least I didn't mind it. I'm not a huge fan of historical novels either, they just aren't for me. The general idea of this book is definitely beyond what I usua ...more
I had serious doubts if this would be a book for me. First of all, I've never liked the time travel theme. I don't know why, but it just never worked for me. Still, I can't say that this was my favorite part of the book either, but at least I didn't mind it. I'm not a huge fan of historical novels either, they just aren't for me. The general idea of this book is definitely beyond what I usua ...more
Edana (Dana) Franklin | Kevin
This book was written in 1979, but it doesn't feel that way. I loved every minute. I've said and heard other people say what they would do if they were able to go back in time as a POC, and after reading this I have to say that we don't know what the hell we're talking about.
The things our ancestors had to endure is mindboggling and atrocious. There were moments when Octavia described a whipping, someone being put in chains, ect... that I found tears in my eyes.
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This book was written in 1979, but it doesn't feel that way. I loved every minute. I've said and heard other people say what they would do if they were able to go back in time as a POC, and after reading this I have to say that we don't know what the hell we're talking about.
The things our ancestors had to endure is mindboggling and atrocious. There were moments when Octavia described a whipping, someone being put in chains, ect... that I found tears in my eyes.
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This is a fantastic, powerful novel about a modern-day black woman who suddenly begins being pulled back in time to save a young boy in the antebellum South. The story is fantastic: clearly well-reasearched, fast-paced, and just enough detail to really immerse you in Dana's experience.
The author also doesn't bog the story down with a bunch of details on time travel and paradoxes, which I appreciated. For her, the focus of the story is really on Dana and her interactions with the Weylins and the ...more
The author also doesn't bog the story down with a bunch of details on time travel and paradoxes, which I appreciated. For her, the focus of the story is really on Dana and her interactions with the Weylins and the ...more
Dana Franklin is a black woman in America in the seventies. She finds herself living her life with her husband who is white, but then she is catapulted back to antebellum south. The story goes back and gives a historic look at the way slaves were treated. Dana also ends up discovering some things about her ancestry that surprise her. Life during that time and how Dana is living through her current circumstances. The story is hard at times to read, not because it is not written well but because i
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Aug 19, 2017
Jessie Marie
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I finished reading this book, in 2017 post-Charlottesville, written by a woman in the 1970s, about a black woman, going back in time to the early 1800s, pre-Civil War, via audiobook recorded and performed in the late 1990s. Forgive the pun, but it's going to take some time to wrap my thoughts around this one.
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