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What price do we pay for freedom?
‘Better than any debut novel has a right to be’ Richard Russo
For readers of WASHINGTON BLACK, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and DAYS
WITHOUT END.
In the dying days of the American C ivil 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.
C onjuring a world fraught by tragedy and violence yet threaded through with hope, THE
SWEETNESS OF WATER is a debut novel unique in its power to move and enthral.
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