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Description

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies 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... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Dana: Edana Franklin, or Dana, is the main character in this book, the heroine if you will. She is a black woman married to a white man in '76 Los Angeles.

First Sentence

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Octavia E. Butler (Author)
 

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