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Sugar

"Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugar speaks of what is real." ?The Dallas Morning News From an exciting new voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its "unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end." The Chicago Defender calls Sugar "a literary explosion...McFadden reveals amazing talent." The novel opens when a young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women's lives?and the life of an entire town. Sugar brings a Southern African-American town vividly to life, with its flowering magnolia trees, lingering scents of jasmine and honeysuckle, and white picket fences that keep strangers out?but ignorance and superstition in. To read this novel is to take a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace.

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  • ""Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugar speaks of what is real." ?The Dallas Morning News From an exciting new voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its "unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end." The Chicago Defender calls Sugar "a literary explosion...McFadden reveals amazing talent." The novel opens when a young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women's lives?and the life of an entire town. Sugar brings a Southern African-American town vividly to life, with its flowering magnolia trees, lingering scents of jasmine and honeysuckle, and white picket fences that keep strangers out?but ignorance and superstition in. To read this novel is to take a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace."@en
  • "Sugar, with her bouncing blond wig and red-painted lips, moves in next door to Pearl Taylor in Bigelow, Arkansas, and their unlikely friendship eventually tranforms their lives and their entire community."@en
  • "Sugar, with her bouncing blond wig and red-painted lips, moves in next door to Pearl Taylor in Bigelow, Arkansas, and their unlikely friendship eventually tranforms their lives and their entire community."
  • "Sugar earned the animosity of the Bigelow women from the moment she came to their small Arkansas town."
  • "Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, a tale of loyalty and friendship between two African American women finds Jude turning to the church after the death of her daughter, and to a young woman who turns out to be a prostitute."
  • "Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, a tale of loyalty and friendship between two African American women finds Jude turning to the church after the death of her daughter, and to a young woman who turns out to be a prostitute."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en

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