THE WATER DANCER

Number-One New York Times Best Seller Oprah's Book Club Pick From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. "This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist." (San Francisco Chronicle)  Nominated for the NAACP Image Award Named One of Paste's Best Novels of the Decade Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Time The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Vanity Fair  Esquire Good Housekeeping Paste Town & Country The New York Public Library The Dallas Morning News  Kirkus Reviews Library Journal "Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary." (Entertainment Weekly) Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted wit