Octavia E. Butler · 1979 · exile

Octavia E. Butler's 1979 novel. On her twenty-sixth birthday in 1976 Los Angeles, a Black writer named Dana is wrenched back through time to a Maryland plantation in the early 1800s, summoned again and again to save the white slaveholder's son who is her own ancestor. Torn between two centuries and two coasts, she must survive the antebellum South to secure her own existence.

1. 1
   Los Angeles

   Dana's 1976 home, where she has just moved in with her husband when a wave of dizziness pulls her out of her own time and across the country into the past.

2. 2
   Maryland

   The antebellum plantation on the Eastern Shore where Dana is repeatedly summoned to save the reckless Rufus Weylin - her ancestor - and must endure the brutal reality of slavery to survive.