A terrific book with enough ideas to chew on to keep a room full of smart people happy for many hours. I dislike books that have Slavery is Bad as their main theme because it's something I've known for over fifty years now, but [a:Ta-Nehisi Coates|1214964|Ta-Nehisi Coates|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1595285597p2/1214964.jpg]'s [b:The Water Dancer|43982054|The Water Dancer|Ta-Nehisi Coates|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1549993860l/43982054.SY75.jpg|68378686] goes well beyond that and has enough action and characterizations for it to interest anyone.
Novels by writers more known for their essays—this is his first—are usually uninteresting. This is an exception.