January Books & Banter Fiction Book Club: Amity by Nathan Harris
January 27, 2026 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Books & Banter is our general fiction book club, focusing on great new reads that matter! As always, our book clubs are free and open to all, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation, we’ll provide the treats!
This month’s pick is Amity by Nathan Harris ($29.00 Book club price: $26.08 Hardcover, 320 pp)
From Nathan Harris, NYT bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water. This is a sweeping story about the price of freedom in the uncertain years after the Civil War. In 1866 New Orleans, emancipated siblings Coleman and June remain trapped in the long shadow of their former master, Mr. Harper.
Two years earlier, Harper dragged June to Mexico to escape Reconstruction; now, a mysterious letter summons Coleman there as well. Believing he’ll finally be reunited with his sister, Coleman sets out—only to be thrust on the run with Harper’s daughter, Florence, across the unforgiving Mexican desert.
As crooked pursuers close in and June faces her own frontier peril, both siblings learn that true freedom isn’t granted—it’s claimed. Richly drawn and emotionally resonant, Amity is a powerful new contribution to the literature of emancipation.