Not only that, the dialogue here is some of the worst I've ever encountered. Wow! What a crazy idea, to throw this couple and their modern ideology into the Southern cookpot. When her husband grabs on to her arm and travels with her on her a later journey, the plot thickens. a modern Black woman, married to a white man, is forced to have everything threatened, everything taken away from her. Butler imagined here is juicy and delicious. Just one piece you need to buy into: Dana time travels and, unlike poor Henry from TTTW, she does not arrive naked at her next destination. In other words, if the genre of “science fiction” makes you uncomfortable, take heart, there aren't any other aspects of it here. Dana, our time traveling protagonist, appears to be connected to the slave owners in Maryland, and, similar to Henry from The Time Traveler's Wife, you are asked merely to suspend your disbelief that this can happen. The reader isn't given any more info than that. (For the record, my favorite novel set in Maryland is Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ).Ī twenty-something Black woman, married to an older white man in the 1970s, disappears from her new house in California and time travels to 1815 to a plantation near Baltimore, Maryland. In fact, while I was researching titles for this figurative road trip of mine, I set aside my devotion to one of my all-time favorite writers, Anne Tyler, to give Ms. Butler's work was still out there for me to explore. This is so extraordinary to me, my closeted sci-fi self has always rejoiced, just knowing that Ms. she was a writer, and not just any writer, but a female writer of science fiction. It's hard not to hum a few bars of Sarah Vaughn's “Lonely Woman” while sorting through Ms. (Was she gay? Asexual? Sickly?) As far as I could tell, she had substantial medical issues and lived with her mother, and died, far too young, at 58, of a stroke. From the recent bits and pieces I researched, as I started this novel, I gathered that her romantic life was either private or nonexistent. She was a self-described “loner,” a woman who was tall and awkward and friendless. Her father died when she was 10, she had no siblings, her family was poor. Butler's biography could just break your damn heart.
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