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Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.  (You have to read them.)

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’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 she 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.

Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground

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      Publisher: Beacon Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/09/2022
      ISBN13: 9780807006924, 978-0807006924
      ISBN10: 0807006920
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.  (You have to read them.)

      The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

      “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

      Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’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 she 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.

      Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground

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