Amity: A Novel

Author: Nathan Harris

Title: Amity: A Novel

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 2025-09-02

Description: 

An unforgettable tale of a brother and sister, freed from slavery yet still chasing the promise of true liberty, whose desperate journey across the Mexican desert brings them face to face with love, betrayal, and the brutal cost of survival.

New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War has ended, but freedom remains elusive for Coleman and June. Two years earlier, their enslaver, Mr. Harper, fled to Mexico with June, determined to escape the upheaval of the South. Coleman, left behind in Louisiana, endured servitude to the Harper family, clinging to the hope of reunion.

When a letter arrives from Mr. Harper calling him to Mexico, Coleman believes his chance has finally come. But June’s life on the frontier is not the salvation Coleman imagines, and the truth of her suffering remains hidden. As Coleman sets out, calamity forces him onto the run with Mr. Harper’s daughter, Florence. Together they trek into the unforgiving desert, pursued by ruthless bounty hunters bent on capturing them both.

Separated yet bound by devotion, Coleman and June must each survive a landscape of danger and deceit. Along the way, they discover that freedom is not a gift bestowed by others—it is a prize wrested through courage, sacrifice, and defiance.

With the same intimacy and epic sweep that defined his New York Times bestselling debut The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris returns to the turbulent years after the Civil War to craft a powerful story of family, resilience, and the unyielding fight for true emancipation. Amity is a luminous and essential contribution to the literature of freedom.

EAN: 9780316456241

Languages: en