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Sat, Feb 24
|Gallery Space
Fit To Be Lit Book Club Meeting
Time & Location
Feb 24, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Gallery Space, 274 Main St, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA
About the event
Come join us for a fun and thoughtful discussion of some of today's best literary fiction!
This month's title is by Nathan Harris:The Sweetness of Water
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. 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. 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. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting…