<b>From <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals.</b><br>When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's dif
Sugar Town Queens
โ Scribed by Nunn, Malla
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner and Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and the bonds that knit our communities.
When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looksthat and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown.
But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's...
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