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This book was written almost 50 years ago, and it feels like it could have been written today (which says something about the lack of progress of race relations since the book was released). What do you do when your kin are your oppressors? How do you act when you travel through time? How do you balance self-preservation with helping those around you? This was my first Octavia Butler novel, and now I want to read all the rest of them. The unparalleled storytelling, the way she uses story to expl
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Dec 03, 2023
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I chose this novel to fit a prompt in The 52 Book Club’s 2023 Reading Challenge (Prompt #48: A book by Octavia E. Butler). Previously, I’d come across the author’s name a few times as a science fiction author, but hadn’t read any of her books.
I was very pleasantly surprised. This is science fiction, in that it involves time travel, but felt more like historical fiction in the way that it described her repeated visits to a plantation in early 19th-century Maryland. The story is told in first-pers ...more
I was very pleasantly surprised. This is science fiction, in that it involves time travel, but felt more like historical fiction in the way that it described her repeated visits to a plantation in early 19th-century Maryland. The story is told in first-pers ...more
I tried a few times over two renewals to start this, but somehow didn't get pulled in deep enough until it was due for good, & then flew through it in one day despite obvious piles of housework sitting around me, waiting. Some impressions: whirlwind, clearcut chapter titles (though I didn't catch on til after the end), so much complexity in Dana and her relationships, such difficult growth and change (not always positive). Echoes of one white man in another, as Alice suggests. Close female relat
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