![]() ![]() ![]() George and his wife Isabelle grieve for their son Caleb, reported dead after deserting the Confederate army. It’s only weeks since the Civil War ended, and Union soldiers occupy the town to keep the peace. Although content for the moment in their freedom in the woods, George soon invites them to work on his land, which has until now lain fallow. But in the woods he finds something else, two newly freed brothers from the property next door, the younger Prentiss, and the giant, mute Landry who delights in the small moments of beauty among cruelty, the sweetness of water of the title. These woodland jaunts are regular recreation for him, stalking a black, hairy beast that sometimes walks on two legs, sometimes on four, a beast he and his father have been after since childhood. The Sweetness Of Water begins with wealthy landowner George Walker walking in the woods on his property near the fictional Georgian town of Old Ox. ![]()
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