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SUMMARY:Author Works: Nyani Nkrumah - "Wade in the Water"
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DESCRIPTION:Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s c
 lassic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s "The Secr
 et Life of Bees"\, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerabilit
 y\, race\, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a preco
 cious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town 
 in the early 1980s..\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/8099484
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Stunning&hellip\;The&nbsp\;author is supre
 mely gifted at bringing both her characters and&nbsp\;their close-knit rur
 al town to life. Readers will eagerly await more from this writer.&nbsp\;&
 mdash\;&nbsp\;Publishers Weekly&nbsp\;(starred review)<br />&nbsp\;</p>\n<
 p>Set in 1982\, in rural\, racially divided Ricksville\, Mississippi&nbsp\
 ;Wade in the Water&nbsp\;tells the story of Ella\, a black\, unloved\, pre
 cocious eleven-year-old\, and Ms. St. James\, a mysterious white woman fro
 m Princeton who appears in Ella&rsquo\;s community to carry out some resea
 rch.&nbsp\;Soon\, Ms. St. James befriends Ella\, who is willing to risk ev
 erything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there.&nb
 sp\;The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James\, at times loving and 
 funny and other times tense and cautious\, becomes more fraught and comple
 x as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James&rsquo\;s carefully construct
 ed boundaries that guard a complicated past\, and dangerous secrets that c
 ould have devastating consequences.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>To
 ld in two voices\, Ella&rsquo\;s and Ms. St. James&rsquo\;s\, and&nbsp\;se
 t&nbsp\;around richly developed characters\, this riveting\, page turning 
 coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking re
 velation.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Nyani Nkrumah&nbsp\;was bo
 rn in Boston and grew up in Ghana\, West Africa and later Zimbabwe. Her lo
 ve of writing comes from her mother\, a former English and literature teac
 her who entertained her kids by reciting poetry and Shakespeare soliloquie
 s on the way to school.</p>\n<p>Nyani graduated from Amherst College where
  she dual majored in Biology and Black Studies. She also has a Masters fro
 m the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D from Cornell Universit
 y. She is also a Fulbright Fellow. In her other life\, she lives in the Wa
 shington DC area with her family and works in international development. S
 he is also known as Nyaneba Nkrumah.</p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event
 /8099484
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