Gathering Of Waters

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Tass Hilton and Emmet Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town and her memories, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit. 40 years later following the death of Maximillian, Tass moves back to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmet Till's troubled spirit is finally released from the dank waters of the Tallahatchie River. The two lovers are reunited, bringing the story to an enchanting and profound conclusion.

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As strange as this may sound, Bernice L. McFadden has created a magical, fantastic novel centered around the notorious tragedy of Emmett Till's murder. This is a startling, beautifully written piece of work.
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice L. McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in immediately and swept me along through its richly imagined world. I couldn't stop reading, caught up as I was in that enticing place between truth and fantasy, the here-and-now and the what-was, the living and the dead, the ugliness and the beauty, the hatred and the love. What a rich chorus of voices Bernice L. McFadden has fashioned from this place called Money.
--Lee Martin, author of Break the Skin and The Bright Forever

Author Bio

Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classic "Sugar" and "Glorious, " which was featured in "O, The Oprah Magazine, " selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, "The Warmest December, " was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as "searing and expertly imagined." McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.