Paperback, 264 pages
Published Oct. 4, 1988 by The Women's Press.
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 story is narrated in such a captivating way. Readers should be prepared for very serious topics that would warrant a number of content warnings, but the strong way in which the author engages with these themes makes this the very reason to read the book in the first place.
Important book which takes you on a wild journey on a plantation. Great reminder that knowing something and feeling it are two very different things.
