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Queen Sugar

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Queen Sugar

“Smart and heartfelt and highly recommended.” --- Karen Joy Fowler, author of THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB
 
The inspiration for the highly anticipated 13-part TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey, directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma), and starring Rutina Wesley ("True Blood") and Greg Vaughan, premiering September 6th on OWN.
 
Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing QUEEN SGUAR and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South.
 
When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.

Queen Sugar
by Natalie Baszile