![]() Learning that she had inherited this house, she came back to Arkansas. Sugar’s mother abandoned her in a local bordello run by the black Lacey sisters Sugar was raped there, became a whore, and then moved north. She eventually wins a hardened Sugar over, and the two women share their life’s stories. Pearl, reluctant to believe that Sugar is a whore, and affected by Sugar’s striking resemblance to Jude, tries to make friends. Sugar, born in a nearby town, soon scandalizes the locals because she sits naked in front of her windows and has men visitors. ![]() But when Sugar moves next door, her life begins to change. Pearl, Jude’s mother, never recovered from the event she retreated into herself, dressed like an old woman, and was sexually cool to husband Joe. ![]() The people are poor, work hard, and have been so badly treated by whites that fifteen years ago when teenaged Jude Taylor was found murdered and her body horribly mutilated, it was assumed the perpetrator was a white man. Set in a fictional small town of 1950s Arkansas, the story vividly evokes the life and time of a community still haunted by racism. African-American McFadden presents a sometimes schematically plotted but sweet debut tale of an unlikely friendship between two women. ![]()
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