The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) Audiobook
The world was not the same in the past and it was not a safe haven for all the humans living in it. For some, it was just a nightmare because they had a darker skin tones and were being treated as slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates has described a lot of these situations in other books like We Were Eight Years in Power and The Beautiful Struggle.
The author wanted to tell the world about the struggle of black people and the torture they had to go through for the sake of freedom. Young Hiram Walker is the symbol of that struggle in this book as he gets separated from his mother when she is sold and sent away to some other part of the land.
Living a life without his mother was really tough for him and he slowly started adjusting to it until the day when he almost got drowned. He was lucky that he remained safe and he started thinking that there was some kind of a positive force who was saving him all the time. From there he didn’t return to slavery rather he joined the underground war between the slaves and their captors.
The young boy started a struggle with no end apparently but he thinks that he was made for all that he is not going to back down until he finds his mother. It is the struggle of an individual to get back to his family and live life according to his dreams. Joe Morton’s voice narrates this story which is all about the struggle of an individual to get things right for himself and the people around him.