The tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever. Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten i
Queen Sugar
β Scribed by Natalie Baszile
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Pamela Dorman Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A mother-daughter story of reinventionβabout an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana
Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good+bye to Los Angeles.
They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley must balance the overwhelming challenges of her farm with
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