GSC Book Discussion Registration: Thursday, December 3 | 6 PM
In Conjunction with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures program's "Ten Evenings" series, GSC is hosting "Four Evenings" pre-lecture discussions that put prominent world authors and their work in a global perspective. Open to series subscribers and the Pitt Community, these evening discussions, conducted by Pitt experts, provide additional insight on prominent writers and engaging issues.
The Global Studies Center, along with Pitt faculty will hold a virtual book discussion on Thursday, December 3 at 6 PM. Please register above by clicking on the date. Once your registration is received, a Zoom-Link will be sent to you via email.
An essential voice of our times, National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates brings us his debut novel, The Water Dancer, “a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance.”
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
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