![]() ![]() Throughout his courageous journey north and participation in the underground battle for liberation, Hiram struggles to match his gift with his mission. Struggling with his own longing for freedom, Hiram finds his affiliations tested with Thena, the taciturn old woman who took him in as a child Sophia, a young woman fighting against her fate on the plantation and Hiram’s father who obliquely acknowledges him as a son. Despite this astonishing vision, he cannot remember much about Rose. His power and his memory are major forces that propel Hiram into an adulthood filled with the hypocrisy of slavery, including the requisite playacting that flavors a stew of complex relationships. He travels between worlds, gone but not gone, and sees his mother, Rose, who was sold away when he was a child. When Hiram is nearly killed in a drowning accident, he detects an amazing gift he cannot understand or harness. ![]() Hiram Walker is the son of an enslaved woman and her slave master, owner of a prominent Virginia estate. ![]()
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