Book #186 of 2019: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates There’s a slow burn to the fantastical elements of this novel about teleportation on the Underground Railroad, but even when it seems like pure historical fiction, it’s still a devastating portrait of slavery in antebellum Virginia. Debut novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates channels the same powerful prose …
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