The Water Is Wide
by Pat Conroy
2020-04-17 20:37:20
New York Times Bestseller: The âmiraculousâ memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek). Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the s...
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New York Times Bestseller: The âmiraculousâ memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek). Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they canât name the US president or the ocean that surrounds them. Most canât read or write. Many of the students are the descendants of slaves, handicapped by poverty and isolation. When Pat Conroy arrives, an eager young teacher at the height of the civil rights movement, he finds a community still bound by the bitter effects of racism, but he is determined to broaden its membersâ horizons and give them a voice. In this poignant memoir, which Newsweek called âan experience of joy,â the New York Timesâbestselling author of The Prince of Tides plumbs his experiences as a young teacher on an isolated South Carolina island to reveal the shocking inequalities of the American education system.
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