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Wade in the water : a novel / Nyaneba Nkrumah.
Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi, Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a Black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James, at times loving and funny and other times tense and cautious, becomes more fraught and complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences. Told in two voices, Ella's and Ms. St. James's, and set around richly developed characters, this riveting, compelling coming of age story will keep listeners entranced until the last shocking revelation.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063226616
- ISBN: 0063226618
- Physical Description: 310 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
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| Subject: | Interracial friendship > Fiction. Children and adults > Fiction. Nineteen eighties > Fiction. African American authors > Fiction. Mississippi > Race relations > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. |
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