AMITY

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful Robert Jones Jr author of The Prophets I didn t want to put the book down reader review A writer of great lyricism and power i paper I had tears streaming down my face for the last chapter and epilogue reader review Harris will win over the hearts of many readers Financial Times It is simply A D MN GOOD BOOK reader review Masterful Oprah Winfrey Louisiana 1869 The Civil War might be over but former slaves Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they ve been promised Two years ago the siblings were separated when their old master Mr Harper took June away on a hair brained scheme to Mexico to escape the new reality of the post war South Coleman stayed behind to serve the Harper family clinging to the hope that Mr Harper would one day bring June back to him When an unexpected letter from Mr Harper arrives summoning Coleman and the Harper family to Mexico Coleman believes his prayers have been answered But what he cannot know is the tangled truth of June s tribulations and Mr Harper s true intentions As Coleman and June separately navi