Other slaves in the community, called the Tasked, tell him he has this power to conjure the memory of his mother through the water. Hiram Walker’s mother had been sold off years ago by his white father, Howell Walker, and Hiram wants to remember his mother. Coates’ first novel moves slowly through the overuse of prose but emphasizes the decision of freedom and what it exactly means to the different characters. It tells the story of a man trying to recall memories of his long-lost mother and escape enslavement on a dying tobacco plantation in Virginia owned by his white father. Tales of magical realism and the harsh reality of the Atlantic slave trade becomes intertwined in “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. What I might do with such a power was not my immediate concern, so much making it through that day.” “The summoning of a story, the water, and the object that made memory real as brick: that was Conduction.
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