![]() ![]() Now, the twenty-nine-year-old can add the 2021 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence to the long list of accolades his book has garnered. “Yeah, it’s just been thrilling to know that so many people are connecting with these characters in this world that I made out of thin air. In addition to the bestseller being an Oprah’s Book Club pick, the novel was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, made Barack Obama’s 2021 summer reading list, and was met with widespread critical praise. Harris, a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, never anticipated the level of success his 2021 debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, has enjoyed. “I made the town of Old Ox and I was the only one a part of it, if you will, alone so much with this little world.” And then, suddenly, Harris’s little world was a place Oprah had been, and wanted to talk about. “Yeah, that was bizarre,” Nathan Harris said, referring to the moment when he picked up his ringing phone and Oprah Winfrey was on the other end. ![]()
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