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Booklastic Book Club: The Water Dancer

April 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Book cover featuring man under the surface of the water

We’re not fantastic…we’re booklastic!

Booklastic meets the last Wednesday of every month. Our April read is 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 idealistic 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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Plot summary adapted from the publisher. This month’s Booklastic is made possible by The Friends of the North Shore Library at Princeville.

If you need an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days prior to the program date. We will make every attempt to fulfill all requests for accommodations. All programs are subject to change. For a list of upcoming library events, visit test-library.ehawaii.gov/events

Details

Date:
April 29, 2020
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:

Island

Recommended for

Adults

Branch

Kauai – Princeville
4343 Emmalani Dr.
Princeville, HI 96722 United States
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Phone:
808-826-4310

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