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Wade in the Water : a Novel by Nyani Nkrumah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wade in the Water : a Novel about?

"An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah's Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and the precious heart and soul of a young girl deserving love."—Diane McKinney-Whetstone, author of Our Gen and Tumbling "Fearless. . . . Vividly bring[s] to life rural 1980s Mississippi."—People "A dreamy, brutal, and revelatory reading experience that quickens the pulse and tugs the heart."—Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Carry Me Home 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, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s. Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. S

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Nyani Nkrumah
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780063226630
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.4 / 5 (287 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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