It all begins when Reverend August Hilson and his wife, Doll, escape the race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma and move to Money along with the soul of Esther, the whore who has assumed Doll’s body. McFadden’s story emerges with a prescient warning: “your soul has a body, and souls never ever die.” Gathering of Waters is a chilling and sorrowful story surrounding the savage, racially motivated and brutal slaying of Emmett Till in 1955. Money is a narrator with infinite vision and an omnipresent capacity to unveil the intimacies of each character’s mind. Bernice McFadden accomplishes this fantasy with the personification of Money, Mississippi. We often imagine what it would be like if a place could talk, be a witness to historical events.
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