Edition |
Twenty-fifth anniverary edition. |
Description |
287 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Black women writers series |
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Black women writers series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284). |
Contents |
Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope. |
Summary |
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 14.0 73467. |
Subject |
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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African American women -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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Subject |
Time travel -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
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Southern States -- Fiction.
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Local Subject |
Enslavers -- Fiction.
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Subject |
Slavery -- Fiction.
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ISBN |
0807083690 (pbk.) |
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9780807083697 (pbk.) |
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