This is an arresting historical portrait of Southern life with reimagined outcomes, suggesting that hope in the enduring power of memory can offer healing where justice does not suffice.' She compellingly invites readers to consider the distinctions between 'truth or fantasy'.In McFadden's boldly spun yarn, consequences extend across time and place. 'McFadden combines events of Biblical proportions-from flooding to resurrection-with history to create a cautionary, redemptive tale that spans the early twentieth century to the start of Hurricane Katrina. Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered, NPR Hire a chorus to chant it to you and anyone else interested in hearing about civil rights and uncivil desires, about the dark heat of hate, about the force of forgiveness.' Jesmyn Ward, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice While they inhabit these pages they live, and they do so gloriously and messily and magically, so that we are at last sorry to see them go, and we sit with those small moments we had with them and worry over them, enchanted, until they become something like our own memories, dimmed by time, but alive with the ghosts of the past, and burning with spirits.' 'McFadden works a kind of miracle-not only do retain their appealing humanity their story eclipses the bonds of history to offer continuous surprises.Beautiful and evocative, Gathering of Waters brings three generations to life.The real power of the narrative lies in the richness and complexity of the characters. Gathering of Waters has been selected as a Go On Girl! April 2013 Book Pick. Gathering of Waters was named a finalist for a 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award!

Gathering of Waters is a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award! One of Essence's Best Books of the Decade!

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