Sugar Land
Tammy Lynne StonerSugar Land is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to a starred Kirkus Review, Sugar Land "is a postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil rights, tracing the treatment and awareness of gay people through these decades. The love child of Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown... a] ravishing debut."
It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend―who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)―but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful novel about the heart's refusal to be denied what the heart wants.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 10/23/2018
ISBN: 9781597096270
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018 pg. 102
Foreword 08/26/2018
Booklist 10/01/2018 pg. 29
BookPage 11/01/2018
Library Journal 11/15/2018 pg. 76