![]() ![]() Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR. The Sweetness of Water is the first Oprah’s Book Club pick since her selection of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels in March. ![]() “And I guess I want this novel, and what this community faces, to show that we can come together in a way. “We’re dealing with.issues of race, issues of class, and the scars of the past,” he told CBS. Harris said hearing that his novel was selected for the club was “surreal.” “That’s why I liked it so much, is because you get to literally look at how far we have come.” “I think one of the things that’s so relevant about the story is that you can feel the essence of what it means to have come from there to here,” Winfrey said. A reviewer for Kirkus called the book “an impressive debut by a storyteller with bountiful insight and assurance.” Set against the backdrop of the Confederate Army’s. It has received critical acclaim from Barack Obama as well as Oprah Winfrey, who included it as part of Oprah’s Book Club the novel was also awarded the 2021 Ernest J. Harris’ novel, published Tuesday by Little, Brown, tells the story of a pair of Black brothers, Prentiss and Landry, who have been freed from slavery and find work on a peanut farm owned by a White married couple. The Sweetness of Water is the 2021 debut historical novel by author Nathan Harris. “This is Nathan’s debut novel and I’m thrilled to introduce him to you because you’re going to grow to love him and his work,” Winfrey wrote in an Instagram post. Winfrey made the announcement on CBS This Morning on Tuesday. Nathan Harris’ novel The Sweetness of Water is the latest pick for Oprah Winfrey’s hugely popular book club. ![]()
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