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Location	Collection	Call #
Andrew Bayne Memorial Library	Fiction	Fic Butl
Location	Andrew Bayne Memorial Library
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	Fic Butl
CLP - Beechview	Fiction	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Beechview
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	FICTION Butler
CLP - Carrick	Science Fiction	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Carrick
Collection	Science Fiction
Call Number	FICTION Butler
CLP - Downtown and Business	First Floor - Science Fiction	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Downtown and Business
Collection	First Floor - Science Fiction
Call Number	FICTION Butler
CLP - Hazelwood	Fiction Collection	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Hazelwood
Collection	Fiction Collection
Call Number	FICTION Butler
CLP - Main Library	First Floor - Fiction Stacks	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	First Floor - Fiction Stacks
Call Number	FICTION Butler
CLP - Squirrel Hill	Science Fiction	FICTION Butler
Location	CLP - Squirrel Hill
Collection	Science Fiction
Call Number	FICTION Butler
Dormont Public Library	Fiction	F BUTL
Location	Dormont Public Library
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	F BUTL
Mt. Lebanon Public Library	Fiction	BUTLER Octavia E.
Location	Mt. Lebanon Public Library
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	BUTLER Octavia E.
Sewickley Public Library	Fiction	F BUT
Location	Sewickley Public Library
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	F BUT
Wilkinsburg Public Library - Eastridge	Fiction	FIC BUT
Location	Wilkinsburg Public Library - Eastridge
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	FIC BUT

 

Unavailable (17)

Location	Collection	Status
Braddock Carnegie Library	Fiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	Braddock Carnegie Library
Collection	Fiction
Status	CHECKED OUT
CLP - Carrick	African American Fiction	ON HOLDSHELF
Location	CLP - Carrick
Collection	African American Fiction
Status	ON HOLDSHELF
CLP - Downtown and Business	First Floor - African American	IN TRANSIT
Location	CLP - Downtown and Business
Collection	First Floor - African American
Status	IN TRANSIT
CLP - Downtown and Business	First Floor - African American	CHECKED OUT
Location	CLP - Downtown and Business
Collection	First Floor - African American
Status	CHECKED OUT
CLP - East Liberty	Science Fiction	IN TRANSIT
Location	CLP - East Liberty
Collection	Science Fiction
Status	IN TRANSIT
CLP - Hill District	African American Fiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	CLP - Hill District
Collection	African American Fiction
Status	CHECKED OUT
CLP - Lawrenceville	Fiction Collection	CHECKED OUT
Location	CLP - Lawrenceville
Collection	Fiction Collection
Status	CHECKED OUT
CLP - Main Library	Teen Department - Teen Fiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Teen Department - Teen Fiction
Status	CHECKED OUT
CLP - Main Library	First Floor - Fiction Stacks	IN TRANSIT
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	First Floor - Fiction Stacks
Status	IN TRANSIT
CLP - West End	Fiction Collection	IN TRANSIT
Location	CLP - West End
Collection	Fiction Collection
Status	IN TRANSIT
CLP - Woods Run	Fiction Collection	CHECKED OUT
Location	CLP - Woods Run
Collection	Fiction Collection
Status	CHECKED OUT
Northland Public Library	Fiction	ON HOLDSHELF
Location	Northland Public Library
Collection	Fiction
Status	ON HOLDSHELF
Northland Public Library	Science Fiction & Fantasy	IN TRANSIT
Location	Northland Public Library
Collection	Science Fiction & Fantasy
Status	IN TRANSIT
Penn Hills Library	Fiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	Penn Hills Library
Collection	Fiction
Status	CHECKED OUT
Penn Hills Library - Lincoln Park	Fiction	IN TRANSIT
Location	Penn Hills Library - Lincoln Park
Collection	Fiction
Status	IN TRANSIT
Upper St. Clair Township Library	Science Fiction	IN TRANSIT
Location	Upper St. Clair Township Library
Collection	Science Fiction
Status	IN TRANSIT
Wilkinsburg Public Library	Fiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	Wilkinsburg Public Library
Collection	Fiction
Status	CHECKED OUT

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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "The grande dame of sci-fi's 1979 novel is still widely, deservedly popular, and this graphic adaptation will lure in even more readers. Dana is a 1970s black woman repeatedly and involuntarily whisked back in time to a nineteenth-century plantation, where she becomes embroiled in the lives of the people enslaved there, risking everything by educating their children, even as she forms an uneasy and dangerous relationship with her own white ancestor. This adoring adaptation is dense enough to fully immerse readers in the perspective of a modern woman plunged into the thick of a culture where people are dehumanized by the act of dehumanizing others. It also preserves the vivid characterizations of the time traveler, her husband, and the enslaved people and the slaveholders, making the fantastical device that sets the story in motion a springboard for deeply humane insights. The heavily shaded, thick-lined, and rough-edged art lends a grimness appropriate to a life of jagged brutality and fearful uncertainty. Both a rewarding way to reexperience the tale and an accessible way to discover it.--Karp, Jesse Copyright 2017 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Dana, an African-American woman in the 1970s, is thrust backward in time to a 19th-century Maryland plantation. Over many visits to the past, she realizes that the spoiled son of the plantation owner is her ancestor, destined to father children with a slave, and she must protect his life to ensure her own existence. Butler's celebrated 1979 novel, here adapted into a graphic novel, starts with a gripping idea and builds skillfully, as both Dana and her white husband in the present are warped by slavery and become complicit in its evil. This graphic novel recaps the classic source material faithfully without adding much to justify the adaptation, although it may find some new readers. The blocky artwork lacks the subtlety to evoke the complexity of the novel or the vividness of its historical settings (in addition to the antebellum South, the adaptation preserves the 1970s setting of the "present-day" sections). It's an effective recap, clearly produced with great love and respect, but the book remains the gold standard. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information

Series	Bluestreak.
Subjects	African American women -- Fiction. Slaveholders -- Fiction. Time travel -- Fiction. Slavery -- Fiction. Slaves -- Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction. Southern States -- Fiction. Psychological fiction. Science fiction.
Publisher	Boston :[2003]
Edition	25th anniverary edition.
Language	English
Notes	Includes reader's guide.
Description	287 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284).
ISBN	9780807083109 0807083100 9780807083697 0807083690
Other	Classic View