Sugar (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Sugar Sunday, August 2 2009.

• From an exciting new voice in African-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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Sugar Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bernice L. McFadden: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Sugar Thursday, July 16 2009.

• JUDE was dead.