Wade In The Water A Novel Nyani Nkrumah by Nyani Nkrumah instant download after payment.

Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power & vulnerability, race, & class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl & a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.

Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi, Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, & Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella & Ms. St. James, at times loving & funny & other times tense & cautious, becomes more fraught & complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, & dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences.    

Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, & set around richly developed characters, this riveting, page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation. 

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