Summary
A Good Morning America 2021 Top Summer Read Pick
The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us--along with her Black female hero--through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
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 to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us--along with her Black female hero--through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
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 to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
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 |