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Plot:
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that take ...more
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“Slavery is everyday longing, is being born into a world of forbidden victuals and tantalizing untouchables—the land around you, the clothes you hem, the biscuits you bake. You bury the longing, because you know where it must lead.”
A powerful and poignant novel focusing on slave era Virginia and the Underground. The brutality of the South and it’s horrifying past, the strength of an oppressed community, the beauty of human relationships, and a touch of supernatural, really me ...more
“Slavery is everyday longing, is being born into a world of forbidden victuals and tantalizing untouchables—the land around you, the clothes you hem, the biscuits you bake. You bury the longing, because you know where it must lead.”
A powerful and poignant novel focusing on slave era Virginia and the Underground. The brutality of the South and it’s horrifying past, the strength of an oppressed community, the beauty of human relationships, and a touch of supernatural, really me ...more
Sep 09, 2021
Morris
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it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
magical-realism,
slavery
Memory and remembrance. In this book, until Hiram achieves the required state of these two goals, he really cannot realize his potential. And, with all the people depending upon him, he has a lot to learn and do. Much of this novel deals with the fits and starts of Hiram's growth. I felt Coates persuasively presented his characters as they might have spoken in this antebellum era. I think the interactions between the characters are believable. The signs are clearly there; there will be a conflic
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