![]() Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the furthest reach of that power as a means to transcend borders and bondage in “The Water Dancer,” a spellbinding look at the impact of slavery that uses meticulously researched history and hard-won magic to further illuminate this country’s original sin.įor Coates, whose epistolary quasi-memoir “ Between the World and Me” won a National Book Award in 2015, this trip to the past was foreshadowed in his vividly drawn examination of what it means to be black in today’s United States. ![]() ![]() The best writers - the best storytellers, in particular - possess the enchanting, irresistible power to take the reader somewhere else. ![]()
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