Walking on WaterBy: Randall Kenan "A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human Cause for celebration." Times Picayune From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, clich shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty first century. In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: