Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Classic American Literature Between Camp and Cursi considers

Between Camp and Cursi considers how this body of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature has challenged heteronormativity in Mexico and wrestled more broadly with both the colonial underpinnings of modernity and hegemonic Western gender norms

Originally published in 1982

War is brewing among the kingdoms

"What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body

so what could possibly go wrong

Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Classic American Literature Between Camp and Cursi considersAn Instant New York Times bestseller An Oprah's Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award winning "miraculous debut" (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, foreverIn the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry freed by the Emancipation Proclamation seek refuge on the homestead