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Sugar Land is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to Lambda Award winner Kate Carroll de Gutes, this debut "stacks up with some of the best Southern storytelling out there and should have a place on the bookshelf next to Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown." 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.
About the Author
SUGAR LAND, tammy lynne stoner's debut, won an IPPY, was a Forewords Award finalist, long-listed for the Tournament of Books and the Chautaugua Prize, and currently short-listed for the Crook's Corner Prize. Her other work has been selected for two dozen anthologies and literary journals. She was nominated for a Million Writers Award and a Pushcart and earned her MFA from Antioch University. Stemming from what her grandmother calls her "gypsy blood", tammy has lived in 16 cities in three countries, working as a biscuit maker, a medical experimentee, a forklift operator, a gas station attendant, and a college instructor - among other odd jobs. tammy is the creator of Dottie's Magic Pockets, publisher of Gertrude journal, and wrangler of the GERTIE queer book club. She lives with her lady-friend and their three kids in Portland, OR, where she eats too many panna cottas.
