Rawles agreed to do it, but, nervous that rough sketches might not show the full range of what she could create, she bought a few small canvases and began painting instead. He had not yet finished his novel, but he knew it would deal with water as a central theme, so he asked Rawles - somewhat shyly, in her telling - whether she might be interested in trying her hand at the cover art.īook covers are typically created by in-house designers, but Coates said he wanted Rawles to “read the work, feel a type of way and then create something,” which is to say, be inspired rather than directed by him or his work. The odyssey follows the story of Hiram Walker, a young man born as a slave on a plantation in Virginia who has been gifted a mysterious, magical power that eventually saves his life when he. After almost drowning from crashing a carriage into a river, Hiram discovers that he has a. Available at: For her first selection of the new chapter of Oprahs Book Club with Apple, Oprah selected Ta-Nehisi Coates first novel, The Water Dancer. In late 2017, during a visit to Rawles’s studio in Los Angeles, Coates saw some of her recent work: photo-like paintings of black women, men and children floating or swimming in a pool. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK - From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. The Water Dancer follows Hiram Walker, who was born enslaved and lost his mother at a young age. The image, painted by the artist Calida Garcia Rawles, depicts a black man submerged in water, a reflection of both a plot point in the book as well as Rawles’ previous work, in which she said she’s combined the “meditative” quality of water to reckon with black trauma.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first novel, “The Water Dancer,” will be published in September by One World, an imprint of Random House, and now, it has a cover.
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