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Our recommendations service is open for all to use. Moreover, we pride ourselves on being able to track down and obtain any book our customers want. THE SWEETNESS OF WATER is his debut novel. He was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee Williams fiction prize. Nathan Harris is a Michener fellow at the University of Texas. 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.

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. 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. 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.
