Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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41. Washington Black

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Author:
Edugyan, Esi
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3.9 stars
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
EDUGYAN
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EDUGYAN

42. The water dancer: a novel

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Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
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"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...