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The water dancer : a novel

Coates, Ta-Nehisi (author.).

Summary: "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." --

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  • ISBN: 9780399590597
  • ISBN: 0399590595
  • ISBN: 9780399590610
  • ISBN: 0399590617
  • Physical Description: print
    403 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : One World, [2019]

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
ALA Black Caucus Award, 2020 (First novel).

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Subject:
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
Plantations -- Fiction
Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
FICTION / African American / Historical
FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
Plantations
Slavery
Virginia
Southern States
Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Slavery -- Fiction
Slaves -- Fiction
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 50 of 50 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Pelham Public Library.

Holds

  • 6 current holds with 50 total copies.

Other Formats and Editions

English (3)
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Town of Pelham Public Library COATES (Text) 31023151237828 Fiction Available -
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