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The water dancer / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The water dancer / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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ISBN 9780241325261 (paperback)
Name Coates, Ta-Nehisi author.
Title The water dancer / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Published London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
©2019
Description 403 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her, but 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 he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's 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 he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram's resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children, the violent and capricious separation of families, and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today's most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
Subjects Slaves -- United States -- Fiction
Historical fiction, American
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
Escapes -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Virginia -- History -- Fiction
Genre Historical fiction
Fantasy fiction
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