Nathan Harris, THE SWEETNESS OF WATER: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"I can assure you that moms do find time to read. At least, my mom did." Zibby is joined by Nathan Harris whose debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, was selected as an Oprah Book Club Pick, was on President Obama's 2021 Summer Reading List, and was longlisted for this year's Booker Prize. Nathan shares why he was initially scared to write a novel set immediately after emancipation, how his mom reacted when he told her Oprah had just called him, and the importance of finding a supportive community to share your literary universe with.

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1:10.4	Nathan Harris is the author of The Sweetness of Water, which was Oprah's book pick in July.
1:18.0	Nathan holds an MFA from the Michner Center at the University of Texas.
1:22.7	He is the recipient of the University of Oregon's Kid Prize and was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas and the Sweetness of the University of Oregon's Kid Prize and was a finalist for the Tennessee
1:27.7	Williams Fiction Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, and The Sweetness of Water is his first
1:33.2	and best-selling novel. Welcome, Nathan. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time
1:38.5	to read books to discuss the sweetness of water. Pleasure to be here. Happy job. So would you mind telling everybody what your book is about just to give them sort of the elevator
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