Yonder Black & African American Historical Fiction A is for adventure

A is for adventure

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history

though her only desire is to go to college

at the age of twenty-four

Yonder Black & African American Historical Fiction A is for adventureThe Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid 19th century. They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it werent saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William