Sweet WaterFrom the PEN nominated author of The Blueprint comes a moving novel about two women connected by music, memoryand murder. Texas, 1983. Lola Jones is in prison for the death of her mothers former lover, a man whose presence tangled itself through both their lives. After years of silence, Lola writes a letter to the dead mans daughterthe secret sister from the better part of town in whose shadow Lola has lived most of her life. As Lola reaches across

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