Nyani Nkrumah

Broschiertes Buch

Wade in the Water

Beschreibung

This novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.

Autor

Nyani Nkrumah was born in Boston and raised in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She developed her love of reading and writing from her mother, who taught English Literature and Language and encouraged her children to recite poems and Shakespeare soliloquies. After graduating from Amherst College with a dual major in Biology and Black Studies, Nkrumah received her master’s at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has lived in the Washington, DC, region for the past twenty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780063226623
• ISBN-10: 0063226626
• Artikelnr.: 68058500