Queen Sugar
Author: Baszile, Natalie
ISBN: 9780143126232
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Jun 2015
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
An O Magazine favorite, a mother-daughter story of reinvention about an African American woman who inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana, and the new life and new family it brings together.
The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay
"Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections-to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet."
-Tayari Jones, author ofAn American Marriage
Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar 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.
ISBN: 9780143126232
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Jun 2015
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
An O Magazine favorite, a mother-daughter story of reinvention about an African American woman who inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana, and the new life and new family it brings together.
The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay
"Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections-to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet."
-Tayari Jones, author ofAn American Marriage
Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar 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.
