Wade in the Water
by: Nyani Nkrumah
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Product Details
Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 6 months ago
Views - 7
Ships From - Iowa
Est. Publication Date - Jan 2023
Overview
Wade in the Water: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063226616
Publisher Description
Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race...
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Maddie Habron
305 book reviews
Jul 26, 2023
I rated Wade in the Water 3.5/5 stars. Content warning for death, violence, abuse, child sexual abuse, racism, lynching, and related topics. I really liked pieces of this novel. I think it told a unique story from the other historical fictions that I've read in this era. The child narrator was reall...
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Mai’s Books
32 book reviews
Aug 24, 2023
This one is difficult to rate. The blurb mentions "the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s." This isn't what we got at all.
To begin, this didn't feel like 1980. It felt like it was set during the civil righ...
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