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Bezig met laden... Sugar: A Novel (origineel 2000; editie 2001)door Bernice L. McFadden
Informatie over het werkSugar: A Novel door Bernice L. McFadden (2000)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A powerful story told in such realistic terms I felt as though I was there. I want to read more books by this author, so that's a big thumbs up from me. The American south in the 1930s to 1950s was not a friendly place for African Americans. And within their own communities, further dangers infiltrated their everyday lives. This is the story of a societal outcast, a throwaway life, if any part of you believes there is such a thing. Sugar didn't have a chance from the time she was born and yet she had soul. People want to be respected and loved and Sugar was no exception. The book is a brutally honest account of her life and the lives she touched and those who were touched by her. This could be anyone's story with a change of details, all the good and bad, the revelations, the events that lead us down one path and not another. For all the emotions the book evokes, the story is still tenderly told without sparing the reader, a seeming contradiction. Words awaken the senses; you'll feel the heat, fog, fear, love, experience the scents and doubts and longing. And you'll rage against the history that this story represents for there are thousands of personal stories untold just like this one and, unfortunately, they aren't all history. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Blackboard best-seller Sugar is the superb first novel by Bernice L. McFadden. An emotional journey from grief and suffering to understanding and forgiveness, Sugar will keep you turning pages until its graceful conclusion. Sugar arrives in the small town of Bigelow, Arkansas like an ominous storm. She saunters down the street in a blonde wig and spiked heels, cigarette dangling between red-painted lips. Without even speaking to her, the women in town hate her. But when she moves in next door to Pearl, a woman who tragically lost her daughter 15 years earlier, the two women bond over tragic pasts. In this remarkably vivid novel read by gifted narrator Myra Lucretia Taylor, you can almost smell the blooming magnolias in this 1950s-era town. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I loved Pearl and Sugar's relationship. ( )