The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between
the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined
and compulsively page-turning journey to freedomHiram Walker is born
into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a
mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when
he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will
carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive
mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved,
angry Sophia - and into the covert heart of the underground war on
slavery.
Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white
plantation society, exiled as guerrilla cells in the wilderness, buried
in the coffin of the deep South and agitating for utopian ideals in the
North, there exists a widespread network of secret agents working to
liberate the enslaved. Hiram joins their ranks and learns fast but in
his heart he yearns to return to his own still-enslaved family, to
topple the plantation that was his first home. But to do so, he must
first master his unique power and reclaim the story of his greatest
loss.
Propulsive, transcendent and blazing with truth, The
Water Dancer is a story of oppression and resistance, separation and
homecoming. Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the covert war of an enslaved
people in response to a generations-long human atrocity - a war for the
right to life, to kin, to freedom. 'I was enthralled, I was
devastated.
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
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