The Water Dancer: A Novel

by Ta-Nehisi Coates,
The Florida Courier, October 27, 2019

At the outset of “The Water Dancer,’’ the first novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates (whose non-fiction books include “Between the World and Me’’ and “We Were Eight Years in Power’’), Hiram Walker walks off Master Howell’s plantation in Virginia for the first time and feels like a man.