©1997-2023 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess. 24, 2019 The celebrated author of Between the World and Me (2015) and We Were Eight Years in Power (2017) merges magic, adventure, and antebellum intrigue in his first novel. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See His new book The Water Dancer is not a great novel. THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates RELEASE DATE: Sept. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. The Water Dancer: A Novel Ta-Nehisi Coates Hardback: One World, 2019 Buy Now: Amazon Kindle Audible Ta-Nehisi Coates read one biography of Harriet Tubman in which the biographer admitted that historians aren’t quite sure how she managed to lead so many people to freedom. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.

Verghese joins us to talk about the long gap between his works, his career as a doctor, themes of finding home and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. The Water Dancer tells the story of Hiram Walker, a young man who flees bondage in the American South only to return as part of the organized underground efforts to free enslaved people. 'I loved that sense of the slow evolution of a community and watching it happen under your eyes.'Ībraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone, returns with a long-awaited novel - The Covenant of Water, an inter-generational tale through the lives of a family in Southern India.

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