(That’s my shawshanking glory run, my dear friends) Then I started to run away, dropping down my phone as if someone gave me a daily chore to clean up the entire house and I’m escaping from secret big hole at my wall hid behind Rita Hayworth poster. I’m giving those stars in shame, hands shaking as I push them to the key board and clicked: 3 shiny stars. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. 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 they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. So begins an unexpected journey 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 idealistic movements in the North.
This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her-but was gifted with a mysterious power. Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died.An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. 'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' Diana Evans One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.īorn into bondage on a Virginia plantation, 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.
Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved. ' One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life.
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