Gathering of waters
9781617751103
9781617750311
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Grouping Title | gathering of waters |
Grouping Author | bernice l mcfadden |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-03-27 03:08:25AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-03-27 03:13:50AM |
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Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious, McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till.
—One of Essence's "Best Books of the Decade"
—A New York Times Notable Book of 2012
—Gathering of Waters was a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award.
"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 . . . The 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, Editors' 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
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi—a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.
Tass Hilson and Emmet Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit.
Forty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. The two lovers are reunited, bringing the story to an enchanting and profound conclusion.
Gathering of Waters mines the truth about Money, Mississippi, as well as the town's families, and threads their history over decades. The bare-bones realism—both disturbing and riveting—combined with a magical realm in which ghosts have the final say, is reminiscent of Toni Morrison's Beloved.
eBook
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9781617750328
9781617751103
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Akashic Books, Ltd.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Mississippi -- Fiction
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Fiction
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955 -- Fiction
Gathering of waters / by Bernice L. McFadden
African American families
African Americans
Crimes against
Fantasy
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction
Race relations
Till, Emmett
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