![]() ![]() ![]() "This debut novel astonished us as much for its wise, lyrical voice as for its dense realisation of a fictional small town in the American South at a rarely written about moment. In presenting two narratives largely overlooked in traditional renderings of the war, Harris breathes new life into a period of history whose stories have grown stale with overtelling." ― Observer "The Sweetness of Water is a fine, lyrical novel, impressive at the level of the sentence, and in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political. After a chance encounter, they agree to employ the brothers on their land, and slowly the tentative bonds of trust begin to blossom between the strangers.īut this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before a tragedy causes the inhabitants of the nearby town to turn their suspicion onto these new friendships, with devastating consequences. ![]() ![]() Cast into the world without a penny to their names, their only hope is to find work in a society that still views them with nothing but intolerance.įarmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has shaken them to their core. Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. ![]()
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