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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Butler, Octavia E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
Edition:	25th anniverary ed.
Series:	Black women writers series.
Subjects:	African American women > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. Southern States > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Enslaved persons > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. American fiction > 20th century. Noires américaines > Romans, nouvelles, etc. États-Unis (Sud) > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Propriétaires d'esclaves > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Voyages dans le temps > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Esclaves > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Roman américain > 20e siècle. Couples mariés > Romans, nouvelles, etc. FICTION > African American > Contemporary Women. FICTION > Historical. FICTION > Science Fiction > Time Travel. American fiction African American women Slaveholders Slavery Enslaved persons Time travel California > Los Angeles Southern States 1900-1999 Science fiction. Science fiction Fiction Psychological fiction Psychological fiction.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/85/184 http://www.aalbc.com/authors/octavia.htm

Table of Contents:

Prologue
The river
The fire
The fall
The fight
The storm
The rope
Epilogue
Reader's guide: Critical essay
Discussion questions.