A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Random House Trade threatening to pull her under

threatening to pull her under

Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesced in majority cultural inscriptions of race

keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading

resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theoryand Midnight Marauders

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Random House Trade threatening to pull her underCherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others. A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven year olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water