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Join us for our Adult Book Group - Thursday 8 October, 7-8:00 pm
Tickets £8.00/£18.00 (includes a glass of fizz)
Our adult book group read for October is Nathan Harris’s epic novel Amity. Set in 1866 Louisiana, it follows the parallel journeys of siblings Coleman and June to find the freedom promised them. Though no longer enslaved by law they are still in thrall to their old master, Wyatt Harper, who is deeply infatuated with June. The ways of the South are gradually dying out and, when Harper leaves his family to embark on a fantastical scheme to make a new fortune in Mexico, he takes June with him. Coleman and June are separated for the first time in their young lives; will they ever find their way back to each other?
Nathan Harris’s debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, was a Radio 2 Book Club selection and was also longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Critical acclaim for Amity:
Harris’s perceptive writing of the fraught relationships between Amity’s central characters is outstanding and shows a deep consideration of the more subtle ways that white supremacy undergirds “civilised” middle-class society in the American south. - AK Blakemore, The Guardian
Amity interrogates the traditional American tropes of rugged individualism and the romanticized conquering of the land. It’s an engrossing read that offers rare insight into the post-Civil War period, making it a worthy addition to the Westerns and other historical fiction already on your shelf. - Washington Independent Review of Books
You can order your copy of Amity from The Little Bookshop when you book your place and receive a 15% discount (£12.99 RRP).
Booking is essential, online or at the bookshop.