Fantasy × History × Thriller
In 1976, on her 26th birthday, Dana, a black woman, inexplicably traveled back from Los Angeles to a Maryland plantation a century ago, and rescued Rufus, a white boy who was dying from drowning. After that, she experienced several time travels, each time going back to the past when Rufus was in danger, and then back to the present when she was in danger.
While traveling through time and again, Dana discovers a shocking fact - the slave owner Rufus is actually her ancestor, and her family is actually the product of rape.
Do you want to save Rufus next time? Do you want to save a beast that enslaves and rapes your own people, or do you want to completely erase the possibility of your own existence? When the heavy history whips the real and illusory bodies, leaving bloody marks, how should a modern independent woman survive in the cruel history, or not?
Reader comments
I felt a sense of sadness inside after reading it, and I even cried when I saw the rope chapter.
"Maybe he will never be as cold as his father, but he was of his time." When Dana said these words, I wanted to rush into the book, hold her hand and comfort her. But I can't. Outside the book, I can only look at the lines of text and feel the turbulence, depression and sadness in my heart.
A person is destined to be caught up in the times, and Rufus gradually grew up to look like a white man in his time, even though Dana kept trying to educate him. After Dana traveled through time many times, she also felt that "there is no distance from this era."
But Dana never gave up on herself. She was tolerant, kind, self-reliant, and strong. In that era that modern people could not endure, that era when the whip represented power, she explored the way to survive. This tenacity and endurance is what makes a strong black woman.
I felt a sense of sadness inside after reading it, and I even cried when I saw the rope chapter. "Maybe he will never be as cold as his father, but he was of his time." When Dana said these words, I wanted to rush into the book, hold her hand and comfort her. But I can't. Outside the book, I can only look at the lines of text and feel the turbulence, depression and sadness in my heart. A person is destined to be caught up in the times, and Rufus gradually grew up to look like a white man in his time, even though Dana kept trying to educate him. After Dana traveled through time many times, she also felt that "there is no distance from this era." But Dana never gave up on herself. She was tolerant, kind, self-reliant, and strong. In that era that modern people could not endure, that era when the whip represented power, she explored the way to survive. This tenacity and endurance is what makes a strong black woman.