| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
317 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Sugar Land is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to a starred Kirkus Review, Sugar Land "is a postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil rights, tracing the treatment and awareness of gay people through these decades. The love child of Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown ... [a] ravishing debut." It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful novel about the heart's refusal to be denied what the heart wants. |
| Subject |
Leadbelly, 1885-1949 -- Fiction.
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Prisons -- Fiction.
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Texas -- Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Stoner, Tammy Lynne, 1968- Sugar Land. First edition. Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2018] 9781597096263 (DLC) 2018026726 |
| ISBN |
9781597096270 |
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159709627X |
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