The January 2023 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.Octavia Butler's masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. 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 to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time and each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. See the free online study guide.
