Sugar (2000) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Sugar Lacey: The main character.
• Pearl Taylor: Sugar's neighbor and friend.
• Jude: Pearl and Joe's daughter.
• Joe Taylor: Pearl's husband.
• Lappy Clayton: One of Sugar's Johns
• Joe Jr.: Pearl and Joe's son.
• Seth Taylor: Pearl and Joe's son.
• Clair Bell: Add a description of this character.
• Mary Bedford: Sugar's landlard in St Louis
• Bigelow
• Minnie Grayson
• John Lacey
• Sara Lacey
• Mamma
• Anna Lee
• Black John
• Gwen Lacey
• Isaac
• Gibson
• Bertie Mae
• Fayline: Hairdresser.
• Mr. Schwartz: Record producer in Detroit
• Mrs. Wilks
• Beulah
• Shirley Brown: Pearl's friend, extremely curious neighbor that likes to spread rumors.
• May Lacey
• Ruby Lacey
• Mercy: Mary Bedford's grand-daughter.

Quotes edit see section history

• “The only difference between you and me, Miss Pearl, is you began your whoring life in front of a congregation, dressed in white and with God's blessing!”

  Sugar

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• When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.

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• “Don’t matter, life’s ’bout learning new things anyway,”

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• No excuses this time, they had taken her way past courteous and dropped her off somewhere near I don’t give a damn!

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• “Men are like children. They need too much time and attention. I ain’t had the patience to go back to mothering two men instead of one, so’s I stayed alone and liked it.”

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• But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.

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• Two months is not long enough to peel back the skin and reveal the truths that hide beneath it.

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• Did she want to tell Sugar of the madness her mama, Bertie Mae, endured under the roof of Ciel Brown? The emotional and physical battering she lived with up until the day she left Short Junction with Ciel’s man, Clemon Wilks?

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• Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.

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• Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can’t slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.

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• “I felt proud because there was the proof right there on the battlefield that we was men just like them. Not monkeys or some ornery creature that hid its tail in its pants. But men that bled the same red blood.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Pearl
• Sugar
• St. Louis
• Arkansas
• Short Junction
• Detroit
• Alberta
• Florida
• Memphis Roll
• New York
• California
• Chicago

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Bernice L. McFadden (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Friendship
• Books › Romance › Multicultural
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary