“The Water Dancer” was the first book Winfrey chose when she revived her famous “Oprah’s Book Club” for Apple TV + last year. It is the first work of fiction by journalist Coates, who won the prestigious National Book Award in 2015 for his ‘Between The World And Me’, a series of letters to his teenage son about his experiences as a black man in America, intertwined with the history of the Afro. American population.
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‘The Water Dancer’ also revolves around that theme, but that book has a paranormal twist. The novel is about slave Hiram Walker, who in an accident finds out that he has a supernatural gift.
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It’s not the first joint project of Pitt’s production house Plan B and Winfrey’s Harpo Films; they previously worked together on ‘Selma’. That film, about Martin Luther King’s protest march in Alabama, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture in 2015 and won that statuette for best song, for Glory by John Legend and Common.
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