TY - BOOK AU - Harris, Nathan, TI - The sweetness of water SN - 9781472274380 AV - PS3608.A783263 S94 2021 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2021///. CY - London, England : PB - Tinder Press, KW - Freedmen KW - Fiction KW - Brothers KW - Farmers KW - Georgia KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Historical fiction KW - fast N2 - In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, George Walker, a man still reeling from the loss of his son in the war. When the brothers begin to live and work on George's farm, the tentative bonds of trust and union begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before the inhabitants of the nearby town of Old Ox react with fury at the alliances being formed only a few miles away ER -