Cover image for Shallow waters : a novel / Anita Kopacz.
Title:
Shallow waters : a novel / Anita Kopacz.
Author:
Kopacz, Anita.
Personal Author:
Kopacz, Anita.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Black Privilege Publishing/Atria, 2021.
Edition:
First Black Privilege Publishing/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
Cast into mid-1800s America, Yemaya, a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people, as she grows into her powers, must confront the greatest evils of this era while searching for the man who sacrificed his own freedom for the chance at hers.
Subject:
Gods -- Fiction.

Yoruba (African people) -- Mythology -- Fiction.

African American women -- Fiction.

Yemaja (Yoruba deity) -- Fiction.

Mermaids -- Fiction.

Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction.

United States -- 19th century -- Fiction.

United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

United States -- Race relations -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Historical fiction.
Geographic Term:
United States -- 19th century -- Fiction.

United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

United States -- Race relations -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.

Historical fiction.
Format:
Books
ISBN:
9781982179663