Overview
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of herābut 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 heās ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginiaās 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 heās enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiramās resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and childrenāthe violent and capricious separation of familiesāand the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of todayās most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
Advance praise for The Water Dancer
āIn prose thatĀ singsĀ and imagination thatĀ soars, Coates further cements himself as one of this generationās most important writers, tackling one of Americaās oldest and darkest periods withĀ graceĀ andĀ inventiveness.Ā This is bold, dazzling, and not to be missed.āāPublishers Weekly (starred review)
This book title, The Water Dancer (A Novel), ISBN: 9780399590597, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published by Random House Publishing Group (September 24, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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