Memory is a superpower in Ta-Nehisi Coates' novel about the Underground Railroad

Summary

To make the case for reparations for the toll of slavery, acclaimed writer
Ta-Nehisi Coates has offered forceful advocacy and powerful data-driven
argument. With his first novel, The Water Dancer, he uses fiction to
illuminate the Underground Railroad. Coates joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss
the difference between history and myth, and his protagonist's superpower.