Wade in the Water
Thank you Bibliolifestyle and Amistad Books for this gifted copy.
๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ถ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณโ๐ด ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅโ๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ถ๐ญ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐จ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ 1980๐ด.
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 Ellaโs 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. Jamesโs carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences.
Told in two voices, Ellaโs and Ms. St. Jamesโs, and set around richly developed characters, this riveting, page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation.
๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ?
