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02612aam a2200289 i 4500 001 C1D933D20A2011ECA9431E813CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210831010033 008 210701s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2020455520 020 $a 0399590617 020 $a 9780399590610 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 245 14 $a The water dancer : $b a novel / $c Ta-Nehisi Coates. 250 $a One World trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b One World, $c 2020. 300 $a 410 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "Oprah's Book Club 2019. Betselling author of Between the World and Me"--Dust jacket. 520 $a "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. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20210712. 650 $a Slavery $z Southern States $x History $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 941 $a 2 952 $l VQPC384 $d 20230114015605.0 952 $l CWPB586 $d 20210831010151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1D933D20A2011ECA9431E813CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search