The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates is a boldly imagined work of magic and adventure from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me.

The Water Dance is historical fiction with a strong mystical and magical thread. It is the story of the enslavement of a people and the struggle for freedom ...

This is such a powerful story depicting the life of slaves on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, highlighting throughout the gut wrenching separation of children ...

Feb 4, 2021 · Hey all! Welcome to the first discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer. Today we're discussing the first 3 chapters of the book.

It is a surrealist story set in the pre-Civil War South, concerning a superhuman protagonist named Hiram Walker who possesses photographic memory, but who ...

Sep 24, 2019 · In a story that is both stark with realism and adorned with fantasy, Hiram joins the Underground, and he searches for freedom in a life where he ...

Sep 26, 2019 · Ta-Nehisi Coates' new novel, set during the era of slavery, follows a young black man who discovers that his memories trigger a mysterious ...

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 ...

Jun 19, 2020 · It is about slavery and the underground. I will withhold my opinions and critique until I hear from others.