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The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

5.0

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This is a wonderful debut novel set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War. George and Isabelle never kept slaves, but have found out that their son was killed during the last days of fighting. A pair of brothers, Prentiss and Landry have left the farm next door, trying to figure out how to get North and find their mother. George hires them to work on his land and pays them a fair wage which angers and outrages almost all their neighbors. Slow in spots and thoughtful, Nathan Harris has written a sobering look at the immediate consequences in the post War South.