This isn’t a typical first novel, if by “typical first novel” we mean a minor-chord and semi-autobiographical nibbling expedition around the margins of a life. The most surprising thing about “The Water Dancer” may be its unambiguous narrative ambition. When word leaked that he was writing a novel, one had to wonder: What would that be like? With his left hand, Coates also writes comic books, including a Black Panther series for Marvel. In his three books of nonfiction - “The Beautiful Struggle,” “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power” - he seemed to be almost single-handedly waking the consciousness of his country. Over the past decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America’s most incisive thinker about race.
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