Nyani Nkrumah on racism: ‘It’s so difficult to break these chains’
In her thought-provoking debut novel, Nyani Nkrumah takes a fresh look at the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers – James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner – by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the effect of these killings on people’s lives decades later. “Wade in the Water” explores these events through the unlikely friendship of young Ella, a smart and feisty African American girl, and a white woman, Katherine St. James, born in Philadelphia but now doing graduate research at Princeton University, who comes
