At its best, The Water Dancer is a melancholic and suspenseful novel that merges the slavery narrative with the genres of fantasy or quest novels.
In an essay on race and memory, Toni Morrison wrote of "the stress of remembering, its inevitability, the chances for liberation that lie within the process." Ta-Nehisi Coates' new novel, The Water Dancer, is an experiment in taking Morrison's "chances for liberation" literally: What if memory had the power to transport enslaved people to freedom?Ĭoates is best known as a writer of nonfiction, including Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power, but with a new novel and his work on the Black Panther comic series, he is straying into speculative fiction. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Water Dancer Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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