The Water Dancer: A Novel
📚 Why We Recommend ItTa-Nehisi Coates—National Book Award winner and one of our era’s most vital voices—turns history into something electrifying with The Water Dancer, a #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club pick that blends unflinching historical truth with spellbinding magical realism.
Hiram Walker is born into slavery, robbed of his mother’s memory yet gifted with a mysterious power: “Conduction”—the ability to fold space and time through the weight of memory. When a near-drowning awakens this gift, it ignites a desperate mission: escape the Virginia plantation he’s always known, and rescue the family torn from him by the horrors of the slave trade. Coates doesn’t just recount the atrocities of slavery—he breathes life into them, following Hiram from the grand corruption of Southern plantations to the quiet courage of underground freedom fighters, and making every character feel like someone you’d reach out to save.
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