"The visionary time-travel classic whose B lack female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American sl avery and explores the impacts of racism\, sexism\, and white supremacy th en and now.
\nDana&rsquo\;s torment begins when she suddenly vanishe s on her 26th birthday from California\, 1976\, and is dragged through tim e to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus\, heir to a slaveowne r&rsquo\;s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that s he may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul -crushing normalization of savagery\, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.
\nBlazing the trail for neo-slavery narrativ es like Colson Whitehead&rsquo\;s \;The Underground Railroad \;and Ta-Nehisi Coates&rsquo\;s \;The Water Dancer\, Butler takes one of sp eculative fiction&rsquo\;s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence i n the present."
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