When Hiram was a little boy, Howell sold Rose, Hiram’s mother, leaving the boy to be raised by Thena, an enslaved woman who lost her own family.
In flashback, Coates reveals Hiram’s early life. The blue door is a manifestation of Conduction, a supernatural power that allows its wielder to fold space and time to transport people. His master’s son, Maynard Walker, is killed in the crash, but Hiram survives when a blue door transports him from the water to a family monument on the outskirts of the Howell plantation, Lockless. 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.In Part 1, Hiram, the Tasked (slave) and son of Howell Walker, miraculously survives driving his master’s coach into the Goose River. 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. The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates € 17.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.
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