The Water Dancer

I've been on a run of strange, beautiful novels lately, and this one is right up there with them. It's about slavery in pre-Civil War Virginia and the Underground Railroad mixed with magical realism. It tells the tale of one's man journey into discovering himself and his past so that he can affect the lives of the slaves around him. The author is known for his non-fiction, and to be honest, it reads like good non-fiction with magical realism woven into it. At times, I felt like the plot meandered without much direction until the magical realism really kicked in. But the reading experience was simply marvelous.

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