Kindred

Wow, I don't know why I waited to so long to read this - extremely powerful, and (as so many books I'm reading seem to be - or is it just me?) very relevant to what's happening today. Dana, complacent in her feminism and civil rights, is horrified and disillusioned to realize that, in 1814 Maryland, nothing can protect her. (Well, nothing except the fact that there are actual witnesses to her time-travel appearances and departures.) This was probably the only weakness of the book, in my mind - did those witness think she was a witch? An angel? How did they manage to remain as calm about it?