03235cam a2200421 i 4500 26844 26844 20911646 MeVbMML 20191022124418.0 190330s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 2019011177 9780399590597 (hardback ; acid-free paper) 9780593133118 (international) 9780399590603 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc n-usu-- PS3603.O17 W38 2019 813/.6 23 FIC049040 FIC009030 bisacsh Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author. 2953 The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates. First edition. New York : One World, [2019] 403 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Oprah's Book Club 2019. Betselling author of Between the World and Me"--Dust jacket. "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery 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, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"-- Provided by publisher. Slavery Southern States History Fiction. 2954 FICTION / African American / Historical. bisacsh 2955 FICTION / Fantasy / Historical. bisacsh 2956 Fantasy fiction. gsafd 1554 Historical fiction. gsafd 129 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2019-10-22 28.00 2 COAT 49201 2020-06-09 2020-03-11 2019-10-22 BOOK