![]() ![]() His life takes a major turn in ways he never anticipated, forced to “grow” and experience how the outer world views him, he is catapulted into the world of none other than the Underground Railway. As the plantation begins to decline and realizing his eventual fate as a “Tasked” as opposed to a “Quality”, (the term used to describe the slaves vs the rich, wealthy slave owners), Hi decides to escape with his love Sophia. Hi’s father, Howell Walker, the plantation owner soon, sends for him to work in the big house and become his half brother, Maynard Walker’s manservant. ![]() ![]() When his mother gets sold away, he loses all memory of her, but a near death experience leaves him with special powers of conduction. The book follows and is written from the perspective of bi-racial slave Hiram Walker (Hi), a little boy with a remarkable photographic memory, who lives and works on the plantation Lockless in Virginia. ![]() So, this week on the blog, we’re reviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer, read along and see what we thought. Fast forward a few months later and I finally got around to reading it and let me tell you- the hype is real, I sped through this 400-pager in less than 2 weeks something I haven’t done with a book in a very long time. Towards the back end of 2019, this book was blowing up the internet on its merit, but also because it was chosen as the 1st book to be part of Oprah’s relaunched Book Club, so of course you knew it would be on my reading list as well as many others. ![]()
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