{"product_id":"9780063226623-wade-in-the-water-a-novel","title":"Nkrumah Nyani - Wade In The Water A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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 Mc Kinney - 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 Mc Whorter 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. St. James befriends Ella who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James at times loving and funny and other times tense and cautious becomes more fraught and complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences. Told in two voices Ella's and Ms. St. James's and set around richly developed characters this riveting page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Wade In The Water A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Nkrumah Nyani\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780063226623\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nkrumah Nyani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590944923953,"sku":"IN-G-9780063226623","price":17.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780063226623-wade-in-the-water-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}