Date of publication from publisher's webpage. "First published as a hardcover by Doubleday in 1979"--Title page verso. "First published as a Beacon paperback in 1988"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide. Critical essay -- Discussion questions.
Summary:
"Dana is a black woman whose torment begins on her twenty-sixth birthday when she suddenly vanishes from California 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."-- Front jacket flap.
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