![]() ![]() ![]() Second, the peacemaking project attempted on these pages is still clearly unfinished. Between the January insurrection, the threat of Texas secession, and the daily rhetoric of combat and revolution, the battles are ongoing, not just along party but also regional lines. There are several reasons for that: First, its question feels urgent and familiar, because politics now feels like war. But posing the question and following through the work undertaken felt incredibly worthwhile nonetheless.Ä«etween Oprah's Book Club, President Obama's summer reading list and the Booker Prize long list, The Sweetness of Water is having a moment that goes beyond topicality. Lee's surrender at Appomattox and the enforcement of emancipation in the South through the presence of Union troops, Harris asks a question Americans have yet to figure out: How does a community make peace in the wake of civil war? I'm not sure the novel comes close to finding an answer. Focusing on the period just after Robert E. Old Ox, Georgia, is a community attempting to right itself after tectonic upheaval. Evocative and accessible, Nathan Harris's debut novel The S weetness of Water is a historical page-turner about social friction so powerful it ignites a whole town. ![]()
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