![]() 'A staggering debut and a story that stays with you' ***** The comparisons with Colson Whitehead are justified' ***** 'Such a powerful, magnificent book I urge you to read it. Readers have been swept away by The Sweetness of Water: ' highly accomplished debut' Sunday Times ![]() 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. 'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political ' Observer ![]() A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION ![]()
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