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The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399590597
  • ISBN: 0399590595
  • ISBN: 9780593133118
  • ISBN: 0593133110
  • Physical Description: 403 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : One World, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Oprah's Book Club 2019" -- from front cover.
Subject: Enslaved persons > Southern States > History > Fiction.
Slavery > Southern States > History > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Southern States > History > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 19 of 19 copies available at Sage Library System.
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Umatilla County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Adams Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 19 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Adams Public Library AF Coates (Text) 37810000063510 Adult Fiction Available -
Athena Public Library FIC COA (Text) 37813000175193 Adult Fiction Available -
Baker County Library COATES (Ta-Nehisi) (Text) 37814003272946 FICTION - SCI-FI / FANTASY Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande F Coates, T (Text) 35178001774523 Adult Fiction Available -
Enterprise Public Library FIC Coates, T (Text) 30001000315673 Adult Fiction Available -
Harney County Library FIC COATE (Text) 37720000597120 Adult Fiction Available -
Hood River County Library FIC COATES (Text) 33892100636290 Adult Fiction Available -
Hood River Valley High School Library FIC COA (Text) 33892006092556 Fiction Available -
Joseph Public Library F COA (Text) 30002000273938 Adult Fiction Available -
Klamath Community College PS3603 .O17 W38 2019 (Text) 3760307858 Main Collection Available -

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