E. Shaver Starland is located in the Gingerbread House right next to Foxy Loxy Cafe and hosts events throughout the month. Enjoy the Foxy Beverage Bar in the bookstore for tea, coffee, beer and wine!
Join for discussion on The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
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