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The debut novel from Nathan Harris has received high praise and has been added to Barack Obama’s summer reading list, selected for Oprah’s Book Club, and longlisted for The 2021 Booker Prize.
The Sweetness of Water tells the story of brothers Landry and Prentiss, who were born into slavery and are finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. The brothers forge an unlikely bond with a Georgia farmer who believes he has lost his son in the war.
Harris has just completed a fellowship at the renowned Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas. The Sweetness of Water was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr.
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