Publication

2001 - Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100606209328
  • ISBN-139780606209328
  • LibraryThing622671
  • OCLC Control Number57408399
  • Better World Books9780606209328
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Description

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.

First Sentence

JUDE was dead.

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