When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.
An epic poem about the African-American author's brother who became mortally ill with AIDS. Portions of the poem describe the illness from the perspectives of a sister, a brother, a father, the family, and the family's ancestors.
A memoir of the author's Mexican-American family in El Paso, Texas, told through the voices of several generations of relatives, both living and dead, with photographs and genealogical charts.
