Kindred /
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 hi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 25th anniverary ed. |
| Series: | Black women writers series.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/85/184 http://www.aalbc.com/authors/octavia.htm |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 287 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284). |
| ISBN: | 0807083690 9780807083697 9780807083109 0807083100 |