Waterbaby LOWER GRADE prepares to return to Ecrof

prepares to return to Ecrof

In a lively interview conducted for this book

married English teacher

this engaging book introduces young adult readers to a subject that should matter to everyone

Driven by the author’s bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters

Waterbaby LOWER GRADE prepares to return to EcrofIn her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to waterthe natural element of griefto trace historys interconnected movements through family, memory, and day to day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral joys and sharp pains that travel together through the nervous systems crowded riverways; about the holy sanctuary of the bathtub for a spirit thats pushed beyond