{"product_id":"sugar-land-9781597096270","title":"Sugar Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e is the southern story of Nana Dara, a prison cook at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men in 1923, who—with the help of the blues singer Lead Belly—discovers how to break out of her own physical and emotional prison to become the feisty, lesbian matriarch to a family of Texas misfits.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to a starred \u003cem\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e \"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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’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. \u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant, beautiful novel about the heart’s refusal to be denied what the heart wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"tammy lynne stoner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960612524150,"sku":"9781597096270","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_7060d467-f2d2-4f87-8d16-37ccd79f42b7.jpg?v=1778362015","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/sugar-land-9781597096270","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}