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. Full Title: The Water Dancer When Written: 2008-2019 Where Written: Brooklyn, NY When Published: 2019 Literary Period: Contemporary Genre: Magical Realism, Historical Fiction Setting: Lockless, a plantation in fictional Elm County, VA, and Philadelphia, PA, in the mid-19th century. 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. Genres Fiction Historical Fiction Fantasy Magical Realism Historical Audiobook Race.more. 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. 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 strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. 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.
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.
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