After reading the prologue and the first chapter, I think I am going to like this book. At first I was sort of turned off by the whole time travel business, but as I continue to read it is growing on me.
While reading the prologue I thought that maybe Kevin was the reason for the narrator's injury and that the narrator was showering him with love, despite the violent outburst, but I am coming to see that the injury probably occured in her alternate reality with Rufus.
It seems like the time travel thing is going to do a really good job with the whole race issue and how it changes throughout time. It allows us to see the changes in the way African Americans were treated then and now. I am fascinated by the author's ability to combine time travel with a race issue...I have certainly never combined the two ideas in my head before.
I haven't really read enough of the book to say a whole lot about it, these are just a couple of really small thoughts I had.
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Micah, thanks for your reactions on the beginning of the book. I too found the time travel idea a bit hard to get into at first (since I'm not a huge lover of science fiction), but I think Butler uses it interesting ways, which helps me go along with it, so to speak. I'll be interested to see, Micah, how you feel about the book as it continues.
Have others gotten into the book yet? If so, post!
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