A review by erincharp
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.0

I so badly wanted to give this book five stars, but the magical realism lost me--and it usually doesn't. I just wanted the story of Hiram Walker, a boy whose intelligence and photographic memory was wasted because of the color of his skin and how he still rose to majestic heights in spite of it. I loved that part of the story, but Conduction tying into the Underground Railroad was too much of a plot jump for me.