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MARCH 9, 2022 THE SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris is also short-listed for the 2021 Booker Prize. Harris vividly writes with an uncanny understanding of bullies and saints, heroes and cowards. The novel takes place just after the Great Emancipation, when illiterate black freedmen have no idea how to handle freedom and Southerners will not accept defeat. Harris sympathetically creates unforgettable characters in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, with an indomitable heroine who survives great tragedy to provide a healing vision for the land. The richness of Harris’s writing and his psychological insights creates one of the most brilliant novels of the year.

ABOUT

Sandra Biber Didner teaches literature and composition at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Florida. She is the author of the novel The Conspiracies of Dreams , which she is presently adapting into a screen play. Family, book discussions, and music occupy most of her time when she is not playing tennis, writing, or daydreaming.

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