In The Sweetness of Water, the Civil War has ended, but peace is fragile and grief is everywhere.
Brothers Prentiss and Landry, newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, search for safety and a way forward. They find it on the farm of George and Isabelle Walker, a grieving couple who hire the brothers and forge an unlikely bond of hope.
But Old Ox is a town steeped in secrets and resentments. A forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers ignites scandal, violence, and murder, threatening to unravel fragile alliances.
As the community convulses with anger and loss, it is Isabelle who rises, offering a vision of healing when everything seems broken.
Nathan Harris delivers a luminous debut about love, resilience, and humanity’s fight to endure.
