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| Title Statement | Wade in the water: a novel / [text (large print)] : Nyani Nkrumah. |
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| Series | Thorndike Press large print Black voices |
| Author | Nkrumah, Nyaneba |
| Publication | Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,2023. |
| Edition | Large print edition. |
| Extent of Item | 461 pages (large print) ; |
| ISBN | 9798885790758 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07323079 |
| General Notes | Originally published in standard print format: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. |
| Summary | It's 1982, in a rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi. 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. 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. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Children and adults--Fiction |
| Interracial friendship--Fiction | |
| By Location | Mississippi--Fiction--Race relations |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
| Bildungsromans | |
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