![]() ![]() Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. ![]() McFadden is the author of the novels Gathering of Waters, Glorious, and This Bitter Earth.īernice L. ![]() To read this novel is to take a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace. 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. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women's lives-and the life of an entire town. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. McFadden reveals amazing talent."Ī young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. ![]() Sugar speaks of what is real."- The Dallas Morning Newsįrom 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. ![]()
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