Wade in the Water
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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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Nkrumah, N., Nkrumah, N., Schnaubelt, T., & Flowers, E. (2023). Wade in the Water. Unabridged. Amistad.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nyaneba, Nkrumah et al.. 2023. Wade in the Water. Amistad.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nyaneba, Nkrumah et al., Wade in the Water. Amistad, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nkrumah, Nyaneba,, et al. Wade in the Water. Unabridged. Amistad, 2023.
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| title | Wade in the Water |
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| duration | 10h 17m 56s |
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| dateLastUpdated | Sep 08, 2025 06:14:10 PM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Sep 03, 2025 01:31:05 AM |
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