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Consider pairing The Water Dancer with Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
For texts that grapple with the afterlives of slavery, consider Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.
Consider reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s nonfiction work, including Between the World and Me and “The Case for Reparations.”
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The symbolism of the copper coin shifts as Hiram matures. At first, the coin represents Hiram’s ticket out of the Street and into the mansion of Lockless. More broadly, it represents his desire to escape slavery and gain access to the privileged...
In the novel, The Water Dancer, water is a source of supernatural power.... the power that some slaves have to harness memory and water as a means of magical, rapid transportation.
