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The Sweetness of Water


Nathan Harris


An Obama Summer Reading Choice and New York Times Best Seller                      

An extraordinary novel of life after slavery for listeners of Washington BlackThe Underground Railroad and Days without End

In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, George Walker, a man still reeling from the loss of his son in the war.

When the brothers begin to live and work on George's farm, the tentative bonds of trust and union begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before the inhabitants of the nearby town of Old Ox react with fury at the alliances being formed only a few miles away.

Nathan Harris, a native of Oregon, is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas. He was awarded the Kidd Prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas

Category:  Historical Fiction
ISBN:  9781472274410
Publisher:  Headline Publishing
On sale:  April 2022
Format:  Paperback
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