Full name: Sugar: A Novel

Author: Bernice L. McFadden Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452282209 0452282209

"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. McFadden is the author of the novels Gathering of Waters, Glorious, and This Bitter Earth. This book is part of the "Sugar Lacey" series. Here are some other books from this series: "This Bitter Earth" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa Good Hair by Benilde Little The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom The Known World by Edward P. Jones The Book of Night Women by Marlon James The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier The Good Lord Bird by James McBride