![]() ![]() There is also Pandora, with thick braids and long limbs, whose beauty calls to him. ![]() He now finds solace in his hearty band of friends, including William, who is like a brother Margaret Little Zander and Milton, a gifted artist. And it hurts Cato, whose first love, Iris, was sold off with no forewarning. It hurts the reserved and stubborn William, who finds himself falling for Margaret, a small but mighty woman with self-possession beyond her years. It's that cruel practice-the wanton destruction of love, the belief that Black people aren't even capable of loving-that hurts the most. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, Cannonball Greene, they never know what harm may befall them: inhumane physical toil in the plantation's quarry by day, a beating by night, or the sale of a loved one at any moment. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. ![]() About the Book "The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"-īook Synopsis The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century. ![]()
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