02415cam a2200481 i 4500 763112250 TxAuBib 20230113120000.0 220420s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063226616 hardcover 0063226618 hardcover (OCoLC)1351591797 TxAuBib rda Nkrumah, Nyaneba, author. Wade in the water : a novel / Nyani Nkrumah. First edition. New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] ©2023. 310 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 1982. Eleven-year-old Ella lives in the racially divided town of Ricksville, Mississippi, not far from where the Freedom Summer Murders occurred. Too smart for her own good, she loves God, Mr. Macabe, and Nate, the tough owner of the local diner. To her perpetually irritated Ma, and Leroy, her mother's lover, Ella is an unwanted nuisance. The arrival of Ms. St. James puts the Black side of town on edge. Why is this white woman making friends with a little Black girl? When Ms. St. James begins tutoring Ella, an unlikely friendship develops. Soon Ella is willing to risk anything and everything to keep Ms. St. James in a community itching to see her gone. They both have secrets-- which will ultimately come out with devastating consequences. -- adapted from Goodreads info. 20230221. Interracial friendship Fiction. Children and adults Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Children and adults. Friendship. Interracial friendship. Race relations. Secrecy. Mississippi Race relations Fiction. Mississippi. Bildungsromans. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Novels. Novels. TXDCK