The Sweetness of Water: A Novel Ages 14 and up Let Love Have the Last

Let Love Have the Last Word shares Common’s own unique and personal stories of the people and experiences that have led to a greater understanding of love and all it has to offer

When it was quiet

But several years later

and spy on some pesky villains from the 1900s

and Auntie Billie cooking corn on the hot grill

The Sweetness of Water: A Novel Ages 14 and up Let Love Have the LastA profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landryfreed by the Emancipation Proclamationseek 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