The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Water Dancer

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“The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking, and honest writing.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi CoatesOfficial author website of Ta-Nehisi Coates, A New York Times Best-Selling Author and national correspondent for The Atlantic.

In 'The Water Dancer,' Ta-Nehisi Coates Creates Magical Alternate HistoryTa-Nehisi Coates' new novel, set during the era of slavery, follows a young black man who discovers that his memories trigger a mysterious power of teleportation that can help escaped slaves flee.

With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction DebutCoates’s book, about a slave who has the ability to vanish from one place and appear in another, has echoes of work by Gabriel García Márquez, Colson Whitehead and Stephen King.

What Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants to RememberThe writer’s debut novel, "The Water Dancer," is a fantastical love story that seeks to illuminate the forgotten emotional tolls of slavery. "This just wasn’t a physical horror. It broke families," Coates told The Atlantic.

How Monticello inspired Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut novel "The Water Dancer"This week, Oprah revealed on "CBS This Morning" her book club's latest pick as “The Water Dancer," the highly anticipated fiction debut from critically acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates has already won a National Book Award and a Macarthur Genius grant for his nonfiction work. Gayle King sits down with Coates at Thomas Jefferson's estate, Monticello, where he found inspiration for his first novel.

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