The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris is an amazing debut novel by a 29-year-old man about racial and social tensions in the deep South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.  Harris’ prose is luscious; his characters are often odd, and complex.  His explorations of their loves, animosities, challenges and misadventures are many-layered …

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