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November 12, 2009  |  3,333 views  |  0 reviews / comments

SugarFrom an exciting voice in American contemporary fiction comes "a literary explosion...a stunning tale of love and loss" (The Chicago Defender).
 
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.
 
ISBN: 
978-0452282209

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