The Sweetness of Water
Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
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Headline Publishing Group
UK
2022
Paperback
368
Standard
307598
978-1-4722-7441-0
1-4722-7441-5
Slavery & abolition of slavery
Annotation
Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. 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. Farmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has shaken them to their core. 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. But 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.
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