Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.
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ISBN:9780807083109
ISBN:9780807083697
Physical Description:264 p.
Publisher:Boston :Beacon Press,[2003], c1979.
General Note:
"First published as a hardcover by Doubleday in 1979"--T.p. verso.