Over sweet potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming the lives of two women-and an entire community. Then Sugar moves in next door, and Pearl's life irrevocably changes.

It wasn't that Pearl stopped believing in God, exactly she just couldn't trust him the way she used to. It was the day her world shut down, the day the devil himself murdered her young daughter, Jude. 'Deep in her soul, Pearl Taylor knows what it is that Sugar feels, because it happened to her. There were spots where I thought the book was a bit slow.

She parks herself in the house at #10 Grove Street, even though she feels there is something about Bigelow that is calling up the past she prayed she'd left behind. Bernice McFaddens debut novel, 'Sugar', is an interesting story of lives of the deep South, 1950s. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Bernice McFadden Sugar (Paperback) Sugar Lacey series (UK IMPORT) at the best online prices at. 'But Sugar has traveled too far and survived too much to back down now. All they know is they want her gone, out of their town, and away from their men. Sugar brings a Southern African-American town vividly to life, with its flowering. The Bigelow women hate her from the minute they lay eyes on her-on the bouncing blond wig and red-painted lips that tell them she has never known a hard day's work.

'When Sugar arrives in 1950s Bigelow-waltzing down the main square of the sweltering tiny Arkansas town as if she has every right to be there-no one tosses out the welcome mat or invites her in for a Coke. McFadden tells the story of two women: a modest, churchgoing wife and mother, and the young prostitute she befriends. McFadden First Published: January 2001 Publisher: Plume Books Source: Received for free from the publisher for review 229 pages Summary On a hot sunny day, while every resident of Bigelow, Arkansas, awaited a storm, Sugar Lacey waltzes straight through the town to take up residence in Number 10, Grove Street, as Pearl Taylor's neighbor. In a debut novel that blends the rich, earthy atmosphere of the deep South and a voice imbued with spiritual grace, Bernice L.

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