SOCIAL SCIENCES

Queen Sugar

by Natalie Baszile

Pamela Dorman: Viking. Feb. 2014 384p. ISBN 9780670026135. $27.95. F

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A mother and daughter leave Los Angeles behind to take up the 800 acres of Louisiana sugarcane left to them by the former's late father. This debut novel that has been compared to Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees follows the characters' first summer struggling to make the farm work within a racist industry, to mend family trauma, and to find themselves.

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Nov 01, 2013

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