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First Published:
May 1997, 240 pages
Paperback:
Sep 1998, 232 pages
"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."
—Sappho, fragment ...
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Wade in the Water
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A gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class set in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
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