As a debut novelist, Harris has great potential to write many more stories that will transport us all to places where those from different backgrounds can work together and build lives together without prejudice. The Sweetness of Water leaves a lasting and multifaceted impression: It’s warm and absorbing, thought-provoking and humane.NPR Rich prose and such a beautifully imagined time and place Amazing book by any account and that it’s a first novel makes it even more to be treasured. The final dream that his wife Isabelle has it to honor Landry with a new source of water on their property. George will only take water as sustenance after he is injured and the same water sustains his precious new peanut crop. August and Caleb meet secretly at a pond.

The water in the title and its sweetness run throughout the novel: Landry, while still a slave, is enthralled with a fountain on his master's property and pays dearly for enjoying it. As unlikely as it is, I found it to be hopeful. As precarious a time as it was, the author imagines an isolated joining of forces that benefit all.

The novel reveals at every turn a fresh narrative that may have occurred in this time period, but seems unlikely. There is a forbidden love in the story and more adventure by way of a murder that occurs. Most of the people in Old Ox dislike the idea. He invites two freedmen, Prentiss and Landry who are brothers, to work the land with him and share in its profits. George is not a young man, yet begins a new crop on his land - peanuts. They both grieve and withdraw in their own way. They are devastated to learn of the death of their only child, Caleb, in the war. Isabelle and George, white Southern property owners, live outside the town of Old Ox. Nathan Harris has written a quietly rebellious novel set after Emancipation has occurred. Looking for your next read? Check out The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, reviewed by Fulco Library staff, Ellen B.

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