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Wade in the Water audiobook
- By: Nyani Nkrumah
- Narrator: Eboni Flowers
- Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water Audiobook Summary
Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
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 Ella’s 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. James’s carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences.
Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this riveting, page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation.
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Wade in the Water Audiobook Narrator
Eboni Flowers is the narrator of Wade in the Water audiobook that was written by Nyani Nkrumah
Nyani Nkrumah was born in Boston and raised in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She developed her love of reading and writing from her mother, who taught English Literature and Language and encouraged her children to recite poems and Shakespeare soliloquies. After graduating from Amherst College with a dual major in Biology and Black Studies, Nkrumah received her master’s at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has lived in the Washington, DC, region for the past twenty years.
About the Author(s) of Wade in the Water
Nyani Nkrumah is the author of Wade in the Water
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Wade in the Water Full Details
| Narrator | Eboni Flowers |
| Length | 10 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | Nyani Nkrumah |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | January 17, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9780063226647 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Wade in the Water is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063226647.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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