03164cam a2200421 i 4500999001700000001000900017003000800026005001700034008004100051010001700092020004900109020003500158020002700193040002800220042000800248043001200256050002500268082001500293084003400308100003800342245005300380250001900433264003500452300002300487336002600510337002800536338002700564500009000591520165800681650005402339650006002393650005102453655003402504655003602538906004502574942001402619952010902633  c26844d2684420911646MeVbMML20191022124418.0190330s2019    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2019011177  a9780399590597q(hardback ;qacid-free paper)  a9780593133118q(international)  z9780399590603q(ebook)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC  apcc  an-usu--00aPS3603.O17bW38 201900a813/.6223  aFIC049040aFIC0090302bisacsh1 aCoates, Ta-Nehisi,eauthor.9295314aThe water dancer :ba novel /cTa-Nehisi Coates.  aFirst edition. 1aNew York :bOne World,c[2019]  a403 pages ;c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Oprah's Book Club 2019. Betselling author of Between the World and Me"--Dust jacket.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aSlaveryzSouthern StatesxHistoryvFiction.92954 7aFICTION / African American / Historical.2bisacsh92955 7aFICTION / Fantasy / Historical.2bisacsh92956 7aFantasy fiction.2gsafd91554 7aHistorical fiction.2gsafd9129  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBOOK  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2019-10-22g28.00l2oCOATp49201r2020-06-09s2020-03-11w2019-10-22yBOOK