Publication
Beacon Press (2004), 288 pages
Original publication date
1979-07-13
1969
Status
Available
Call number
Description
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 him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
Physical description
288 p.; 7.92 inches
Awards
The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Uncovered Classics (1988)
The Great American Novels (1979)
Penn GSE's Best Books for Young Readers (Selection — Comics & Graphic Novels — 2017)