The women of Bigelow are horrified, yet fascinated, with the appearance of Sugar, a six-foot-tall African-American woman wearing a skin-tight dress, garish makeup, and a blond wig. Flashbacks document the violence and degradation Sugar experienced throughout her life after leaving Short Junction, focusing on her time in St. She left Short Junction at age fifteen, the same day Jude Taylor was murdered. Sugar had been abandoned by her mother in the nearby town of Short Junction and was reared by Sara, May, and Ruby Lacey, sisters who were proprietors of the town’s whorehouse. Taylor befriends Sugar Lacey, a prostitute who has recently moved into the house next door, which was left to Sugar upon the death of her mother. In the subsequent years, Jude’s mother has socially withdrawn, except for her steadfast reliance on religion and the local church. Most of the novel’s action takes place in 1955, but the story begins in 1940 with the brutal rape, murder, and mutilation of Jude, the young African-American daughter of Pearl Taylor in the small, mainly black fictional town of Bigelow. McFadden’s debut novel, Sugar (Dutton, 2000), introduced readers to the title character, Sugar Lacey. The series is a story of acceptance with a backdrop of the segregated South. The two novels center on a brutal murder of a young girl in 1940s Arkansas and the personal redemption of Sugar, an emotionally broken prostitute with a turbulent past. McFadden, is the protagonist in Sugar and its sequel This Bitter Earth.
brutal and moving.Sugar Lacey, a fictional character created by novelist Bernice L. Here she learns the truth about her parentage: a terrible tale of unrequited love, of one man's enduring hatred, and of the black magic that has cursed generations of Lacey women.Ī powerfully realised novel that brings back the unforgettable characters from Sugar, McFadden's bestselling debut, This Bitter Earth is a testament to the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. She doesn't stop until she arrives at her childhood home in Short Junction. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the prying eyes of its small-minded, cruel-hearted townsfolk, praying for the strength to keep going. In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she'd come to break with the past. McFadden's incredible classic debut and the Richard and Judy 2021 Book Club pick, Sugar
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