7/6/2023 0 Comments Sugar by bernice l mcfadden![]() ![]() Usually, I would make notes as I read so I can quote lines that stand out for me, but this was a photocopy, so I couldn’t take notes this time. I am so pleased I received a copy of this moving novel. I haven’t read anything by Bernice L McFadden previously, but the blurb caught my attention. Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK Vintage for a free ARC of this book. McFadden is the author of the novels Gathering of Waters, Glorious , and This Bitter Earth. 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. The novel opens when a young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. ![]() The blurb appealed to me, and I’m so pleased I had the chance to read this re-released classic > About the Book: Today, I have a book review for an author new to me, Bernice L McFadden. In the meantime, have a good week/weekend □ ![]() I’ll be back visiting you all as soon as I can manage it. Hi everyone! Sorry I’m not around much right now. ![]()
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