A black woman from the '70s begins to time travel back to the early 19th century, where her destiny is intertwined with a young slave owner. 
 The premise is amazing and Butler uses it to its fullest, as we're exposed to the pure brutality of slavery and how it can start to break even a woman from the (then) modern day. We understand both the evilness of the institution and how it could be perpetuated. 
 But this novel is more than just that. It's a deeply affecting character story and on exciting action story that is told quite well in the graphic novel form. There were two different section endings that literally left me gasping. 
 Overall, a tremendous story. Hopefully its adaption to graphic-novel form will bring it to more peoples' attention (like me).