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1 author picked The Water Is Wide as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have never read a better book about a white man trying to be accepted by another culture. Though this story involves African Americans instead of Native Americans, it remains a masterpiece of dissecting the white Anglo-American’s best intentions to help a minority culture learn to assimilate into the white world.
You will eat up these pages and finish the book far too soon. Conroy was a master of a compelling story.
From Mark's list on Native Americans with friends in the white world.
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