The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club).nfo
General Information
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Title: The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club)
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read By: Joe Morton
Genre: Fiction: African-American
Copyright: 2019
Audiobook Copyright: 2019
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release date: 2019-09-24
Duration: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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Book Description
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured
debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.” (San
Francisco Chronicle)
“Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped
in its own vivid vocabulary.” (Entertainment Weekly)
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 idealistic 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.
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