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May 27, 2025
Claire
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Dana, a black girl living in California in the 1970s, suddenly finds herself in a completely different place. A miraculous force transported her to Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. She gets to know Rufus, a white boy from a nearby plantation. She saves his life, but he gets stuck in the past and, being black, is treated as an enslaved person. After some time, she can go back, and the next time, she brings her white boyfriend with her. Each time Rufus is in danger, Dana is tra
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5 stars. This was brutal and really hard to read most of the time but damn was it so fantastic.
I don't think I can ever do this book justice so I'm going to keep this really brief. The writing was great and I could kick myself for just now reading a book by Octavia Butler! I'm glad though because I feel like now that I'm older I'm able to appreciate it more than I would have if I had read it years ago.
Heavy topic of fucking slavery aside I loved the time travel in this! It was really cool how sh ...more
I don't think I can ever do this book justice so I'm going to keep this really brief. The writing was great and I could kick myself for just now reading a book by Octavia Butler! I'm glad though because I feel like now that I'm older I'm able to appreciate it more than I would have if I had read it years ago.
Heavy topic of fucking slavery aside I loved the time travel in this! It was really cool how sh ...more
Dana is a modern day (1976) African American women, married to a white man just moving into their first house in California when a dizzy spell throws her back in time to a river bank where a young boy is drowning. She pulls him out and gives him resuscitation saving his life. Then finds herself facing a rifle for touching a white boy in 1815 Maryland. This is the beginning of several times she is pulled back to save the same person when he is threatened with mortal injury. Over the intervening y
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3.5/4 stars
What makes a slave? Dana, a young black woman in 1976 California, married to a white man, gets pulled back in time to a slaveholding estate in Maryland in 1815. Temporarily pulled into the past by a white boy in need of saving, she learns first hand the compromises needed to survive in a society where even a free black person is largely at the mercy of the whims of white people. How much servility is needed to keep one safe and at what cost of selfrespect is such precarious safety gained. What m
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This book will stay with me forever. It has profound ideas and helped me understand my own world better. Everyone should read this book. Octavia Butler was a genius writer. I will be looking at more of her work. I am sorry I haven’t read her before now.
Dana is just going about her normal life when one day she is sucked through time and sees a boy drowning. She saves him and is yanked back to her time. Then it happens again. The next time she drags her husband with her and they get stuck in that time for awhile. When she comes back he isn't with her because he wasn't touching her. This continues to happen for a few more times, Dana must make sure the man survives long enough to create her ancestor.
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The book was a compelling read. It was interes ...more
Jun 23, 2017
Elizabeth
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James Turner
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Aug 15, 2017
Jackie
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Aug 20, 2018
Evan
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Chrystal
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Jan 27, 2023
Patrícia Rodrigues
marked it as tbr-fiction
