![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That alone in itself, is a lot to take in. Mixed race, a slave, his mother gets sold when he was just a boy, his white father owns the plantation of which Hiram works in and he doesn’t really have any parental figures, or have any close relationships with either of his parents. He is the protagonist and the narrator of this story. Let's talk about the characters in this book. But it’s all so delicious and leaves you wanting more. The amount of layers in this book is insane, and we are sort of thrown into Hiram’s life without any sort of warning. There was something exquisitely timeless about the way this book was written and I immediately felt that within reading a couple of chapters. You genuinely felt like this book was written in the mid-19th century, pre-civil war period. In The Water Dancer, you become completely transported into the past. All I knew is that I had to read it because Oprah said so, and she also said it’s probably on her top 5 favorite books ever! I have also heard amazing things about Coates as a writer, and now I get what the hype is all about. I did know that it had something to do with slavery but that was about it. ![]() A lot! I actually went into this book completely blind and I had no idea whatsoever what the book was about. I’m going to start off with saying that a lot happens in this book. ![]()
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