During the training sessions for their journey to Yamacraw, Blake concentrated on prepping his missionaries well in the psyche of the rural blacks, but he did not prepare them well at all for dealing with the southern whites.
Praise for The Water Is Wide “Miraculous . . . an experience of joy.”—Newsweek “A powerfully moving book . . .
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.
"Pat Conroy spent a year teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South Carolina coast."--Jacket.
When Mima's mother meets a pair of Mormon missionaries in the small English town of Wood Box in 1844, Mima prays that the townspeople won't treat them any differently.
A teacher recounts a year on Yamacraw Island, off the South Carolina coast, when he helped black children gain an awareness of themselves as well as the world around them.
The Water Is Wide: A Novel of Northern Ireland
The Water is Wide