Is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.
ET on EWTN: Holy Mass and Rosary on Wednesday, Saint John of Avila. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, 20K views, 780 likes, 597 loves, 3.1K comments, 333 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from EWTN: Starting at 8 a.m. With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. Harris was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree in 2021. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LISTĪnd “a towering achievement of imagination” (Ībout the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever-from “a storyteller with bountiful insight and assurance” ( The Sweetness of Water, his first novel, was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Ernest J.
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