Sugar Land (1999) (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the characters of Sugar Land Thursday, June 7, 2012.

• Added a character: Chloe
• Added a character: Reuben
• Added a character: Kiki
• Added a character: Wayne
• Added a character: Lorenza
• Added a character: Mother Daubert
• Added a character: Zephaniah Haines
• Added a character: Cooper Theodore Prizer
• Added a character: Timothy Wilmer
• Added a character: Dr. Jane Poplin
• Added a character: Zeke
• Added a character: Kit
• Added a character: Alice
• Added a character: Ricki Lake
• Added a character: Albert
• Added a character: Otto
• Added a character: Ruda
• Added a character: Mrs. Vivica Smithers
• Added a character: Neeva
• Added a character: Midge
• Added a character: Butch
• Added a character: Daddy Daubert
• Added a character: Luke
• Added a character: Mrs. Garza
• Added a character: Poole
• Added a character: Frank Dupuis
• Added a character: Missy
• Added a character: Marnie
• Added a character: Blake
• Added a character: Sarah
• Added a character: Mrs. Lu
• Added a character: Rossy
• Added a character: Teddy
• Added a character: Moon Pie
• Added a character: Trudy
• Added a character: Oscar
• Added a character: Carmen Garza
• Added a character: Ramonica
• Added a character: Estelle
• Added a character: Millicent Jane
• Added a character: Ander
• Added a character: Melvin Thadeus Prizer
• Added a character: Miz Pistonpumper
• Added a character: Heather

Punxsutawney Paul approved Dianne’s request to change the title of Sugar Land Saturday, June 2, 2012.

Dianne edited the characters of Sugar Land Monday, May 28, 2012.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters

Dianne changed the title of Sugar Land Monday, May 28, 2012.

Nospin edited the summary of Sugar Land Friday, May 25, 2012.

• The girl-power quotient runs high in Rodgers's alternately wrenching and humorous follow-up to her debut, Crazy for Trying, a finalist for the 1996 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. The daughters of a show biz-minded mother, Kit and Kiki Smithers spent their Texas youth entertaining at county fairs and state penitentiaries under the name of the Sugar Babes. Having loved the glamour of glitzy costumes and cheering audiences, Kit and Kiki find adult domesticity in honky-tonk Texas less than satisfying. Pregnant with her third child, Kiki is reluctant to leave her abusive, philandering husband, and all the verbal foreplay Kit's gone-to-fat husband can muster is "Mmm. You smell good. Like pancakes." Kiki's brief return to her performing artist roots is curtailed by the tornado that threatens her children's lives and seals the fate of her troubled marriage. Meanwhile, Kit has two quickie flings, resulting in a pregnancy of questionable paternity. Readers with true equality of the sexes on their minds may object that Kiki's husband's cheating is treated as an actionable offense while Kit's marital excursions are permitted the luxury of mitigating circumstances. Rodgers's strength, however, is her knack for realistic characters who show their faults un-self-consciously. The country-western twang of her prose salts the heartache she's not afraid to show with a womanly, wise, laugh-through-the-tears appreciation of life. (May) FYI: Rodgers grew up as a performer in a family of bluegrass/gospel musicians and was the first deejay in Helena, Mont. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Lauren G edited the first sentence of Sugar Land Thursday, February 2, 2012.

• You know it's nothng good when the phone rings and it's past twelve adand your husband isn't home and you're sitting in the bathroom with your jeans around your knees; no, you know your daddy has died or the place where you work is on fire or an old lover of yours is holding ten people hostage in an abandoned warehouse and for some dang reason he gave the cops your name and said you better come with a helicopter and that little faux leopard skin Fredrick's-of-Hollywood number or everybody gets it.

Lauren G edited the first sentence of Sugar Land Thursday, February 2, 2012.

• You know it's nothng good when the phone rings and it's past twelve ad your husband isn't home and you're sitting in the bathroom with your jeans around your knees; no, you know your daddy has died or the place where you work is on fire or an old lover of yours is holding ten people hostage in an abandoned warehouse and for some dang reason he gave the cops your name and said you better come with a helicopter and that little faux leopard skin Fredrick's-of-Hollywood number or everybody gets it.

Shelfari edited the classification of Sugar Land Wednesday, June 2, 2010.

• changed the Dewey Classification: 813.54

Shelfari edited the subjects of Sugar Land Thursday, March 4, 2010.

• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

Shelfari edited the first edition of Sugar Land Sunday, February 7, 2010.

• changed the language: English
• changed the publisher: Spinsters Ink
• changed the country: USA
• changed the publication date: 1999
• changed the ISBN: 188352332X
• changed the page count: 346