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    The Water Is Wide
    The Water Is Wide
    The Water Is Wide
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    The Water Is Wide

    By Pat Conroy

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    “A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail.” —Charleston News and Courier

    Yamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river, it was accessible only by boat. But for the handful of families that lived on Yamacraw, America was a world away. For years these families lived proudly from the sea until waste from industry destroyed the oyster beds essential to their very existence. Already poor, they knew they would have to face an uncertain future unless, somehow, they learned a new life. But they needed someone to teach them, and their rundown schoolhouse had no teacher.

    The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. It was a year that changed his life, and one that introduced a group of poor Black children to a world they did not know existed.

    “A hell of a good story.” —The New York Times

    “[Pat] Conroy cuts through his experiences with a sharp edge of irony. . . . He brings emotion, writing talent and anger to his story.” —Baltimore Sun

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 20, 2022
    ISBN9780063322066
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    Pat Conroy

    Pat Conroy (1945–2016) was the author of The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life, My Losing Season, South of Broad, My Reading Life, and The Death of Santini.

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    • 4/5
      A southern memoir from a young idealist in the late 60's by an excellent writer. It is a bout a place and a time in an America under transition (as it always is). The N word is used a lot so it probably wouldn't pass todays woke censors but the book is true. I really enjoy Conroy's prosaic style though it can be a bit much sometime. I also love the sea Islands.A good eye opening read.
    • 4/5
      The water is wideThis is a very readable autobiographical story of the author’s time spent as a teacher on the mythical island of Yamacraw. I learned that it’s really Daufuskie Island located between Hilton Head, South Carolina and Savanna, Georgia. The time period is the 1960s and Conroy is a 24 year old enthusiastic, innovative and sympathetic teacher who discovers that the 18 black students in his middle school class are basically illiterate and ignorant of basic knowledge about their country and the world at large.He learns that these students have been victims of a lousy education because they’ve had incompetent teachers, a school board president who paid lip service to black education and apathy by beaten down parents.Conroy’s techniques are innovative, creative, whimsical and controversial as he gains the respect and attention of students not used to exercising their brains. He cares deeply and hopes to ensure that they have gained some knowledge and basic abilities under his tutelage.He butts heads with Dr.Piedmont from the school board and is eventually fired.What I enjoyed were the characters, the southern dialogue, the camaraderie and curiosity that Conroy evokes in his students, the history of school integration and the passion for educational excellence.
    • 3/5
      Early Conroy. When one actually visits the island near Hilton Head that he fictionalizes as Yamacraw, and speaks with residents who still remember Conroy, one gets a drastically different picture than the one that Conroy depicts.
    • 4/5
      I love Conroy's prose; I loved this book until the inevitable clash with the Powers That Be. He makes it clear from the beginning that this was a temporary part of his life, but I wanted a happier ending. I'm sure he did, too.
    • 4/5
      This book is based on the year that Conroy taught in a school on a South Carolina island. It's described variously as a novel and as a memoir. Although the name of the island, the students, and other school personnel have been changed, it's not really fiction. Conroy tells his story thematically, and many of the events are not recounted in chronological order. Conroy was in his twenties when he took this job, and it shows. He was passionate about teaching, but also arrogant like many of us were in our twenties, and this eventually cost him his job. This is a must-read for educators, but one word of warning is in order. The book is a product of its time, and Conroy's frequent use of a racial epithet is jarring. (Conroy didn't use this word in his own conversation, but he quoted others who used it.)
    • 4/5
      Forty-six years after it was first published, and nearly fifty years after the events he describes in this book, Pat Conroy’s memoir stills packs a strong punch. A number of factors—from Conroy’s almost-unselfconscious use of the “n” word to his acknowledgment of his mixed motives as a reformed racist—mark the historical perspective of this tale.The memoir itself relates Conroy’s year as an upper elementary school teacher on Yamacraw Island (actually Daufuskie Island) off the coast of South Carolina. Isolated both literally and figuratively from the mainland (the island is accessible only by boat), the students of the island’s lone school—all of whom are black—have been forsaken by all the powers that be. Most of the students cannot read, write, spell their name, identify the President or the country in which they live. With the zeal of a martyr, Conroy embraces the challenge of educating these children. The year is 1969, and the place is South Carolina, so the outcome is expected. This is, after all, a memoir and not a work of fiction.The book poignantly depicts the futile battle Conroy wages against the subversive damage wrought by institutionalized racism. To be fair, he realizes some minor triumphs along the way, but in the end, his time with the children of Yamacraw is brief, and he laments his ineffectual stint as their teacher. Conroy’s prose is legendary, and he deploys it here in service to a sad but true story that remains relevant nearly half a century later.
    • 5/5
      My better half and I love about two thirds of each other’s books, and we avoid each other’s thirds. This causes friendly disagreements over choices. Now, we have what some might call a healthy library, so there is more than a lifetime of reading for each of us. A case in point is Pat Conroy’s memoir, The Water is Wide. Hardly a week goes by when I don’t find one of her favorites finds its way into my TBR pile, and I must confess to some squirreling away of my favorites in hers. Then my book club choose this Conroy for our book club. I was trapped, I had to give in and read this book. Now, deciding which authors to read or to avoid is a complicated process for me. Conroy is a best-selling author, and he is noted for his novels set in his native South Carolina. River is an autobiographical story of his first year of teaching. He chooses an island off the coast of South Carolina, Yamacraw Island. Conroy’s description of the horrific lack of education turned my stomach. Conroy recites the abysmal list of the failure of the school board to take care of students merely because they were black. Conroy wrote, “‘Six children who could not recite the alphabet. Eighteen children who did not know the President. Eighteen children who did not know what country they lived in…’ I slammed twenty-three of these strange facts down their throats, hoping they would gag and choke on the knowledge. My voice grew tremulous and enraged, and it suddenly felt as if I were shouting from within a box with madmen surrounding me, ignoring me, and taunting me with their silence. My lips trembled convulsively as my speech turned into a harangue and the great secret I had nursed in my soul thundered into the open room” (266). Disgust at the treatment of these children is not powerful enough; shame is not powerful enough to brand this pitifully racist schoolboard consisting of seven whites and two African-American women. The placement of these two women was gerrymandering of a sort. Not only were these children neglected and dismissed as “unteachable,” Yamacraw Island faced another catastrophe. Conroy writes, “Then a villain appeared. It was an industrial factory situated on a knoll above the Savannah River many miles away from Yamacraw. The villain spewed its excrement into the river, infected the creeks, and as silently as the pull of the tides, the filth crept to the shores of Yamacraw. As every good inspector knows, the unfortunate consumer who lets an infected oyster slide down his throat is flirting with hepatitis” (5). Conroy confesses to a period he was racist himself. While he was in high school, a teacher invited a group of students, including Conroy, to his home. The students teased the professor for being a n****r-lover. The professor “spat out a devastating reply” then “he played ‘We Shall Overcome’ by Pete Seger. I remember that moment with crystal clarity and I comprehended it as a turning point in my life: a moment terrible in its illumination of a toad in my soul, an ugliness so pervasive that it seemed my insides were vomit” Of course, it still took a while for Conroy to completely abandon his prejudices, he continues, “the journey at least had a beginning, a point of embarkation” (94-95). The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy is a story we must never forget. 5 Stars
    • 4/5
      Conroy's memoir of the time he spent teaching on "Yamacraw Island," his fictional name for Daufuskie Island, off the coast of South Carolina in ~1969. His portraits of the people there and of teaching the African American children there is fascinating. Some other aspects of the book dragged a bit for me (his descriptions of getting to and from the island, his fights with the school board) were less interesting, almost entirely because I've heard such things before, and these descriptions were no different than those. That is not a criticism of the book; Conroy writing in 1972 can't be held accountable for the fact that a reader fifty years later has heard the very stories he helped make known. I do wish he had spent a little more time providing context--the history of the island and so on. But on the whole, definitely worth reading, especially as Conroy's account of this year rarely, if ever, descends into white savior nonsense: he is fully aware of his racism and his limitations and ends the book remarking that he doesn't think he changed the lives of his students one bit. It's kind of the opposite of the "inspirational teacher" trope, as far as I could see. There's nothing particularly "feel good" about this narrative, and that was somewhat refreshing in a way. Heads up for language, especially racist terms we would be shocked to find used matter-of-factly in a such a book if it were written today.
    • 4/5
      When Pat Conroy was a new teacher, he set out for a small island off the coast of South Carolina in 1969/70 to teach poor kids at a black school there. What a culture shock! Not only did these kids mostly not know how to read or write, but they had never experienced Halloween! Pat did a lot for these kids over the year, and taught them in unorthodox ways. I thought this was a memoir, but it was only at the very end of the book that it said it was “based on” his year on the island. I think it also said “fiction” somewhere, but I may be mixing that up with a review I read. I did disagree with one thing he did/argued for, but overall, I was enjoyed this book. It just might have been nice to know ahead of time that it may not have been a completely true account, though.
    • 5/5
      The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence - unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher. Here is Pat Conroy's most extraordinary human drama - based on the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to give an island and a people a new lifetime.
    • 4/5
      Things I thought I knew about this book: It's a nonfiction memoir about Conroy's experience in his 20s teaching at an all-black school on Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina. In it, Conroy struggles with the racism of the school district in his attempt to actually teach children that most white South Carolinians seem to think of as hopeless illiterates at best and sub-human at worst. Conroy wrote the book early in his writing career, though it wasn't his first book. Things I didn't know about this book: The cover says it's a memoir, but it's described within the book itself as a novel. It's a fictionalized account of Conroy's real experience teaching on Defauskie Island, a Gullah community of the descendants of former slaves. Things I wish I knew about this book: How much is fictionalized? The location, presumably the names of all the children and the families, the school administrators? Did he really make an eloquent, impassioned speech at a school board meeting in an attempt to keep his job? Did he really sue the school district to continue teaching on the island, with the case going to trial? Did he really take the children off the island on a number of field trips, including to Washington, D.C.? Did he make any headway at all in teaching these children who he found to be functionally illiterate for the most part? Did any of them make actual academic progress? He never really says.Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed reading this account of Conroy's evolution from redneck good ole boy to bleeding-heart liberal, and I've always found Conroy's writing to be beautifully lyrical and descriptive. It's a little rougher here in this early book, and his tendencies toward the floridly dramatic kept less in check, but the hallmarks of his later style are already evident. But I had no idea this wasn't a straightahead nonfiction book until the very end, and that left me feeling snookered a bit. I felt totally invested in Conroy's drama with the children, the parents, the administration, and to find out that some unknown quantity of it was false left a bad taste in my mouth. I think if I'd gone into the book knowing it was fictionalized I would have liked it quite a bit more.
    • 3/5
      It wasn't clear to me, but I think this is a true story of the author teaching on Yamacraw Island. It's written in a more literary style. I wish I had seen more of the progress the author had made in reaching the children he taught--three quarters of the way through the book and I still didn't see that he'd made much progress in getting them to learn things they should have been learning.
    • 5/5
      This is a very open and candid memoir of the year (and part of a second year) that Pat Conroy spent teaching that the all black two-room grade school on Yamacraw Island, South Carolina. After teaching for a couple years in a white high school that became integrated, the author gradually changed from being a typical Southern racist who believed blacks were inferior and should be schooled separately to a believer in the basic equality of whits and blacks.

      As a result of his change in views, and a new found sense that he wanted to do something to benefit others, he applied to the Peace Corps, but was not accepted. He then decides to take a job teaching at the impoverished black school on Yamacraw Island. The book follows his story from his initial discovery of how abysmally the students' education has been ad his attempts to figure out how to teach them something.. To give an idea of what he found, here is his assessment:

      "So the day continued and with each question I got closer and closer to the children. With each question I asked I got madder and madder at the people responsible for the condition of these kids. At the end of the day I had compiled an impressive ledger of achievement. Seven of my students could not recite the alphabet. Three children could not spell their names. Eighteen children thought Savannah, Georgia, was the largest city in the world. Savannah was the only city any of the kids could name. Eighteen children had never seen a hill—eighteen children had never heard the words integration and segregation. Four children could not add two plus two. Eighteen children did not know we were fighting a war in Southeast Asia. Of course, eighteen children never had heard of Asia. One child was positive that John Kennedy was the first President of the United States. Seventeen children agreed with that child. Eighteen children concurred with the pre-Copernican Theory that the earth was the center of the universe. Two children did not know how old they were. Five children did not know their birth dates. Four children could not count to ten. The four oldest thought the Civil War was fought between the Germans and the Japs."

      What he finds angers him and so within just a few days of arriving he sent a scathing letter to the school superintendent expressing his outrage, a move that, in retrospect, was a mistake. He also finds the lower grade teacher, a black woman, to be more concerned with regimented behavior from the children than learning. She also liberally applies a combination of belittlement of her students and corporal punishment to whip them into shape. Conroy refuses to follow her approach, with which he is appalled anyway, and proceeds to stumble his way along with a periodically out of control class.

      The take home from this memoir to give a window into a society that had so devalued its black citizens that they might as well have been living in a different country. Conroy attempts to make a difference, and planned to teach a second year at the school, but his attempts were viewed by the school administration as beligerance and "racial agitation." In the end he is essentially railroaded out of the school after trying by every means possible to challenge his firing. It is both an inspiring story and a sad story and one well worth reading for anyone interested in the racial attitudes of the South in the 60s to early 70s. Things have changed since then, but some of the attitudes still persist, even almost 50 years later.
    • 5/5
      A beautifully written book about Pat Conway's year teaching school on a small island off the coast of South Carolina where children from a former slave population have grown up isolated from the modern world (except for TV of course). Pat Conway confesses that growing up he too was a racist but was able to put that aside and see the humanity in souls of every color. His description of the children on the island and their reaction to the first white teacher they have known are priceless. He takes them on field trips, makes them think, read, draw. All this without any real support from the school system he works for. Lyrical, enlightening, sad and hopeful all at once. A beautiful book.
    • 5/5
      Once again, this is a reread. I don't think I've read it since I became a teacher, however. That made this book even more poignant than it was in previous readings. Pat Conroy takes a teaching job on an island in South Carolina that is only accessible by boat. It is 1968, and the school is all-black, small, and forgotten by the county people. Conroy makes a difference but bucks the system one too many times. Not only does this book portray a unique education challenge, but it also gives a picture of the Deep South in the 1960s. I highly recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      couldnt find the listing, but after reading the tree book , listened to the tom Stechschulte reading which was excellent.
    • 4/5
      Another enjoyable Conroy story. Based on his experiences teaching on a forgotten island, South Carolina’s Daufuskie Island, Pat Conroy tells the tale of a teacher who truly loved his students and tried to do what was best for them, despite the obstacles around him. Told with humor and love.....
    • 4/5
      This poignant memoir tells of Conroy's early teaching career attempting to upgrade the educational experience of students in an all black school on poverty plagued Daufuskie Island (fictionalized in the book to Yamacraw Island). After teaching high school for a year, and being turned down by the Peace Corps, "Mr. Conrack" as he called by the children, finds himself teaching 18 children in grades 4-8, several of whom cannot count the 5 fingers on their hands, or recite the alphabet, and who do not know what country they live in or any other elementary facts or skills expected of 4th graders in any other school in the state.Conroy must throw away his playbook on how to teach, and devise new methods to inspire his children to learn and to love learning. However, before he can do any of this, he must learn about them, and he must find a way to understand the local dialect known a gullah that the children speak. He discovers one young girl, Mary, is able to serve as the 'translator' for the class, so the adventure can begin.Set in 1969, it is the story of a year of adventures, of triumphs, and of many failures and missteps. It is the story of a small southern school district trying to come to grips with desegregation, and ignoring the needs of this heretofor 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' school. Now with Conroy butting heads with the black principal who "teaches" grades 1-3 (mostly by wielding a huge leather strap), devising numerous games, field trips, and non-traditional methods to inspire his class, the school board is faced with a devoted educator they see as a demanding renegade who refuses to abandon a town, his students, or his principles. Although he was himself the product of segregated Beaufort High School, and a graduate of the Citadel, his world view has expanded, and his championing of this group of neglected but needy children is a story both heartwarming and heartbreaking.Conroy's way with words is, as always, able to paint scenes, dialogue, and emotions in a way that transports his reader exactly where he wants to take them.
    • 5/5
      A memoir of a year spent teaching destitute students on a remote island, The Water is Wide challenges convention and prejudice in really powerful ways. And is proof positive that being seen to do the right thing is different from actually doing it. What I think I valued most was the author's demonstration that throwing money at a problem isn't a solution. Caring is the solution.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! It was the first book I read of Conroy's & I can't wait to get my hands on another one (along with the movie that is based on this book). I thought it was well written & very entertaining! It was both funny & sad. I found myself laughing one minute & heart broken the next. Being based on Conroy's true life it was a very interesting look into the Carolina Low Country in the late 60's & early 70's. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys books giving insight to history,...more I loved this book! It was the first book I read of Conroy's & I can't wait to get my hands on another one (along with the movie that is based on this book). I thought it was well written & very entertaining! It was both funny & sad. I found myself laughing one minute & heart broken the next. Being based on Conroy's true life it was a very interesting look into the Carolina Low Country in the late 60's & early 70's. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys books giving insight to history, teaching or southern settings.
    • 4/5
      This is a fascinating look at the South and race and what happens when you try to buck the system. Conroy is a young school teacher in this, and he takes a job on a small island to teach the unschooled residents. He introduces them to opera and books and takes a beating from many directions as he tries.What astonished me is, despite knowing about the South and the (attempted) Reconstruction, is that there was still an enormous amount of prejudice against black children, with even those entrusted with education still resisting giving the kids their basic human need for learning. So many people wanted to hold on to the status quo even when it clearly was not working.This was a great read for me and it was appropriate for my son to read as well (he was 13). It also contains great descriptions of the coast, flora and fauna and people of the region.
    • 4/5
      I first discovered Pat Conroy this past May when Susan and I stood on line at Book Expo to get an advanced copy of South of Broad. I loved the book and went on to read Prince of Tides, which was also wonderful.I stumbled on The Water is Wide at my library and decided to give his non-fiction a try. Although the prose are not as wonderful and descriptive as the two fiction books I read, they are still good and the story is gripping.In 1969, a young, idealistic Conroy decides to teach on Yamacraw Island, a forgotten island off the coast of South Carolina. The school is a two room schoolhouse and Conroy teaches 4th-8th grade, while Ms. Brown, a disciplinarian (vs. a teacher) teaches the lower grades. An island inhabited primarily by Black families, the children are basically ignored by school administration.The Water is Wide describes Conroy's efforts to teach the children (many of whom do not know the alphabet, let alone current events), expose them to things outside of the island to prepare them when they move away and give them a feeling of self-worth. His battles with the old ways of the inhabitants, the lack of caring by administrators and the childrens' ignorance and fears makes for compelling reading.I highly recommend Pat Conroy in any form.
    • 4/5
      An autobiographical story of when Conroy was a teacher on an island in South Carolina that was more interested in baby sitting than teaching the students. He tries many times to broaden his students horizons and meets continual resistance. I enjoyed this book
    • 5/5
      A glimpse into 1970's southern life. Interesting.

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    The Water Is Wide - Pat Conroy

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