Description
Queen Sugar
Contributor(s): Baszile, Natalie (Author)
ISBN: 0143126237 EAN: 9780143126232
Publisher: Penguin Books
US SRP: $17.00 US
Binding: Paperback: 384 pages
Pub Date: January 27, 2015
Annotation: The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, returning for season two on June 20th
“Smart and heartfelt and highly recommended.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South.
When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana.
She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business.
As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Contemporary Women
- Fiction | African American | Contemporary Women
- Fiction | Family Life