20th Anniversary Editionwith a New Foreword by Kimberly Elise

A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women’s livesand the life of an entire town.

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 outbut ignorance and superstition in. To read this novel is to take a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace.

Bernice L. McFaddenis the author of several critically acclaimed novels includingPraise Song for the Butterflies(longlisted for the2019 Womens Prize for Fiction),Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters(aNew York TimesEditors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012),Glorious, andThe Book of Harlan(winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA.

• Publisher: Plume
• Publish Date: January 02, 2001
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780452282209
• Dimensions: 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Mystery, Popular Fiction