A review by purplehulk713
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.0

It was lovely—Hiram’s character arc of forgetting to remembering, from selfishness to consideration, and from solitude to family is remarkable. I did find it to be a little slow at times perhaps because Coates draws out scenes to reflect on their implications but this could be quite interesting at times. I loved Thena and her relationship with Hi. The ancient magic of Conduction was especially fascinating to me, with its harkening back to all that was which drives us forward and the description of Harriet Tubman as possessing this power tenfold that she would become the Moses of the Underground Railroad. And the biblical comparisons of Hiram’s life to that of Moses cleverly deepened the narrative to make it as ageless as the bond of family itself.