| Vendor | |
|---|---|
|
Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher |
| Original language | |
| English | |
| Categories | |
QUEEN SUGAR
Why exactly her late father left her eight hundred acres of prime sugarcane land in Louisiana is as mysterious as it is generous. But for Charley Bordelon, it's also an opportunity start over: to get away from the smog and sprawl of Los Angeles, and to grow a new life in the coffee-dark soil of the Gulf coast.
Accompanied by her daughter Mika—who is not happy about relocating from L.A to St. Josephine—Charley arrives with high hopes and just in time for growing season. But the abrupt departure of the farm manager suddenly leaves her without a crucial piece of the puzzle: someone who knows how to grow sugarcane.
Rolling up her sleeves, and swallowing her pride, Charley enlists the help of the town in managing her inheritance. As the cane grows, her patience is tested by an unruly brother-in-law who is quickly using up his second chances, and it will take all of her heart to keep the sugar growing and her family intact.
QUEEN SUGAR is full of life and is bound to live beyond the page. Like Charley, readers will fall in love with the characters of St. Josephine; like her grandmother, Miss Honey, they will wish that they never had to leave.
Natalie Baszile has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and earned an M.F.A. at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. She lives in San Francisco with her family and is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto.
QUEEN SUGAR won the Hurston/Wright College Writer’s Award and was runner-up in the Faulkner Pirate’s Alley novel-in-progress competition. Excerpts have appeared in ZYZZYVA and Cairn. Natalie won the Sylvia Clare Brown fellowship at Ragdale, and has also been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Hedgebrook.
Rolling up her sleeves, and swallowing her pride, Charley enlists the help of the town in managing her inheritance. As the cane grows, her patience is tested by an unruly brother-in-law who is quickly using up his second chances, and it will take all of her heart to keep the sugar growing and her family intact.
QUEEN SUGAR is full of life and is bound to live beyond the page. Like Charley, readers will fall in love with the characters of St. Josephine; like her grandmother, Miss Honey, they will wish that they never had to leave.
Natalie Baszile has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and earned an M.F.A. at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. She lives in San Francisco with her family and is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto.
QUEEN SUGAR won the Hurston/Wright College Writer’s Award and was runner-up in the Faulkner Pirate’s Alley novel-in-progress competition. Excerpts have appeared in ZYZZYVA and Cairn. Natalie won the Sylvia Clare Brown fellowship at Ragdale, and has also been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Hedgebrook.
| Available products |
|---|
|
Book
Published 2014-02-06 by Pamela Dorman Books |
|
Book
Published 2014-02-06 by Pamela Dorman Books |