Harris is a writer of great lyricism and power – he can lend even laundry emotional significance: “A bleary glance out the window revealed his mother dipping his pants into the boiling water of the copper washing kettle… He thought he would have to go pant-less about his home, until he remembered the drawer full of clothes across the room, a bounty to a man who had held on so dearly, to so little, for so long. With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Of Mice and Men seems to be an obvious model for the dynamic between the brothers: Landry was beaten so badly and frequently while enslaved that he has stopped speaking, but looms over Prentiss, his quick-witted brother. At mealtimes, Isabelle observes that her dinner table hosts “an assortment of damaged bodies collected together to gain sustenance”. If you liked The Sweetness of Water, what should you read next prose is beautiful historical fiction novel the thrilling ending descriptions so vivid such. The friendship between Walker and the two freed men nonetheless helps him live again as he and his stoic wife Isabelle grieve the loss of their only son in the war. Elif Shafak on The Island of Missing Trees: ‘If I worry about how my books will be received, I can’t write’
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