The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction
In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Awardwinning author of Between the World and Me, brings home the most intimate evil of enslavement: the cleaving and separation of families., Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of herbut was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home hes ever known., So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginias proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as hes enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hirams resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures., This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generation
