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SUMMARY:Millcreek Wednesday Afternoon Book Club
LOCATION:Millcreek\nMillcreek
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DESCRIPTION:Come join our book group for a discussion of "The Water Dancer
 " by Ta-Nehisi Coates.\nLoved the book? Hated the book? Couldn't finish it
 ? Come join us anyway!\nNewcomers are always welcome! .\nhttps://slcls.lib
 net.info/event/11805273
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 />Hiram Walker is the son of an enslaved woman and her slave master\, owne
 r of a prominent Virginia estate. When Hiram is nearly killed in a drownin
 g accident\, he detects an amazing gift he cannot understand or harness. H
 e travels between worlds\, gone but not gone\, and sees his mother\, Rose\
 , who was sold away when he was a child. Despite this astonishing vision\,
  he cannot remember much about Rose. His power and his memory are major fo
 rces that propel Hiram into an adulthood filled with the hypocrisy of slav
 ery\, including the requisite playacting that flavors a stew of complex re
 lationships. Struggling with his own longing for freedom\, Hiram finds his
  affiliations tested with Thena\, the taciturn old woman who took him in a
 s a child\; Sophia\, a young woman fighting against her fate on the planta
 tion\; and Hiram&rsquo\;s father who obliquely acknowledges him as a son. 
 Throughout his courageous journey north and participation in the undergrou
 nd battle for liberation\, Hiram struggles to match his gift with his miss
 ion. Coates brings his considerable talent for racial and social analysis 
 to his debut novel\, which captures the brutality of slavery and explores 
 the underlying truth that slaveholders could not dehumanize the enslaved w
 ithout also dehumanizing themselves. Beautifully written\, this is a deepl
 y and soulfully imagined look at slavery and human aspirations</p>\n<p sty
 le="text-align: justify\;">This is hybrid meeting\, we will be meeting in 
 person\, but there is an option to join us virtually if you would like. Em
 ail mccref@slcolibrary.org for information.</p>\nhttps://slcls.libnet.info
 /event/11805273
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