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The Buzz around Gathering of Waters:

"McFadden works a kind of miracle -- not only do her characters
retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of
history to offer continuous surprises . . . Beautiful and evocative,
Gathering of Waters brings three generations to life . . .ÊThe real
power of the narrative lies in the richness and complexity of the
characters. While they inhabit these pages they live, and they do so
gloriously and messily and magically, so that we are at last sorry to
see them go, and we sit with those small moments we had with them and
worry over them, enchanted, until they become something like our own
memories, dimmed by time, but alive with the ghosts of the past, and
burning with spirits."
--Jesmyn Ward, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"Read it aloud. Hire a chorus to chant it to you and anyone else
interested in hearing about civil rights and uncivil desires, about
the dark heat of hate, about the force of forgiveness."
--Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered, NPR; click here to hear the entire review

"McFadden combines events of Biblical proportions--from flooding to
resurrection--with history to create a cautionary, redemptive tale
that spans the early twentieth century to the start of Hurricane
Katrina. She compellingly invites readers to consider the distinctions
between 'truth or fantasy' . . . In McFadden's boldly spun yarn,
consequences extend across time and place. This is an arresting
historical portrait of Southern life with reimagined outcomes,
suggesting that hope in the enduring power of memory can offer healing
where justice does not suffice."
--Publishers Weekly

"The rich text is shaped by the African American storytelling
tradition and layered with significant American histories. Recalling
the woven spirituality of Toni Morrison's Beloved, this work will
appeal to readers of mystic literature."
--Library Journal

"McFadden makes powerful use of imagery in this fantastical novel of
ever-flowing waters and troubled spirits."
--Booklist

"As strange as this may sound, Bernice L. McFadden has created a
magical, fantastic novel centered around the notorious tragedy of
Emmett Till's murder. This is a startling, beautifully written piece
of work."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

"In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden brings her
own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his
murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which
traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night
in 1955, drew me in immediately and swept me along through its richly
imagined world. I couldn't stop reading, caught up as I was in that
enticing place between truth and fantasy, the here-and-now and the
what-was, the living and the dead, the ugliness and the beauty, the
hatred and the love. What a rich chorus of voices Bernice McFadden has
fashioned from this place called Money."
--Lee Martin, author of Break the Skin and The Bright Forever