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Product Description
As children, Kit and Kiki Smithers achieved and a Sugar Babes, though those excellence days are prolonged gone. All that stays are a blues a sisters sing as they cope with curse marriages, intrigue spouses, mislaid opportunities, and a final of motherhood. Sugar Land is a sprouting novel about a recovering energy of forgiveness, a clearly unfit charge of loving, a resilience of family ties, and what happens when a hurricane meets a double-wide trailer house.
PMA Benjamin Franklin Award finalist (1999)
“Every impression in this novel resonates with life. This gifted author knows how to move pen-and-ink people to strength and blood fulfillment…poignantly authentic.” Southern Living
“Alternately slashing and humorous…Rodgers’ strength is her knack for picturesque characters…and a female wise, laugh-through-tears appreciation of life.” Publisher’s Weekly
“Richly appealing…” Library Journal
“Bittersweet…priceless…” Chicago Tribune
“Pure charm…compelling…full of amusement and compassion. Sugarland is a pleasure to read, and Rodgers is a superb discovery.” Tampa Tribune-Times
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #61442 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-06-28
- Released on: 2011-06-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The girl-power quotient runs high in Rodgers's alternately slashing and humorous follow-up to her debut, Crazy for Trying, a finalist for a 1996 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. The daughters of a uncover biz-minded mother, Kit and Kiki Smithers spent their Texas girl interesting during county fairs and state penitentiaries underneath a name of a Sugar Babes. Having desired a glorious of glitzy costumes and entertaining audiences, Kit and Kiki find adult domesticity in honky-tonk Texas reduction than satisfying. Pregnant with her third child, Kiki is demure to leave her abusive, philandering husband, and all a written foreplay Kit's gone-to-fat father can pattern is "Mmm. You smell good. Like pancakes." Kiki's brief lapse to her behaving artist roots is curtailed by a hurricane that threatens her children's lives and seals a predestine of her uneasy marriage. Meanwhile, Kit has dual quickie flings, ensuing in a pregnancy of controversial paternity. Readers with loyal equivalence of a sexes on their minds might intent that Kiki's husband's intrigue is treated as an actionable offense while Kit's marital excursions are available a oppulance of mitigating circumstances. Rodgers's strength, however, is her knack for picturesque characters who uncover their faults un-self-consciously. The country-western gusto of her poetry ipecac a suspense she's not fearful to uncover with a womanly, wise, laugh-through-the-tears appreciation of life. (May) FYI: Rodgers grew adult as a performer in a family of bluegrass/gospel musicians and was a initial deejay in Helena, Mont.
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From Library Journal
As small girls, Kit and Kiki Smithers of Sugar Land, TX, could belt out songs that done audiences adore them. As adults, they are anticipating adore harder to handle, as Kiki deals with her philandering, physically violent husband, Wayne, and Kit feels a adore trickle out of her matrimony to Mel, a good male who is usually vouchsafing himselfAand their relationshipAgo. When both sisters turn profound for a third time, pang ensues: cataclysmic detriment for Kiki and strenuous shame for Kit, uncertain of her unborn child's paternity after a practical attack by Wayne and a extemporaneous decrease with her boss. Their show-biz-agent mother, Viveca, nurtures and nudges a sisters as she herself battles cancer. In poignant prose, Rodgers (Crazy for Trying, LJ 10/15/96) creates entirely dimensional characters in a story with elements of love, loss, humor, passion, joy, feminism, and even mothers-in-law. As richly appealing as a best nation music, this is for all novella collections.AMichele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Oh, those Smithers kids! As small girls, Kit and Kiki achieved via Texas as a struttin', big-voiced Blues Babies, underneath a instruction of their large mama, Vivica. Years later, as Vivica endures steady bouts of chemo in her conflict with cancer, Kiki is profound with a third child of her drunken, possessively violent husband, Wayne. Kit is hand-decorating Scandinavian seat and married to doughy, pompous Mel, who works lots of overtime building planes to take a family to that mecca for many center Americans, Disney World. After one too many times portion as Wayne's punching bag, Kiki flees home to talent representative Vivica to sing with a black blues band, usually to be blackmailed into returning home, usually in time for a fatal hurricane that squandered Wayne refuses to heed. Kit is now profound though uncertain that a child is Mel's; it could really good be Wayne's. Sweet, sad, mostly funny, Sugar Land has all a elements of a classical nation song, saliently including a bravery of bland people in tough situations. Whitney Scott
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A beautifully created book by an author who has a approach of truly giving her characters life and substance. we found myself holding my exhale with Kit, good with Kiki and pulsation my fist in a atmosphere when probity was served to Wayne. A book with pain and triumph, adore and laughter, presence and loyal emotion. Reading this book was a good approach to spend my time.
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
By Apr Burk
Funny, Poignant, Sexy, Exciting, Compassionate, Smart, Scary, Earthy, Heartbreaking, Courageous, Lyrical -- usually like life. During a charge scene, we indeed put a book down to go spin off my mechanism to strengthen it from lightning, usually to comprehend it was a pleasing open day in a genuine universe -- that's how constrained a essay is. we examination this novel since we favourite a author's autobiographical "Bald in a Land of Big Hair" so most and wanted to check out her fiction. we am intensely tender and demeanour brazen to reading her "Crazy for Trying" next.
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By Sunny Daze
From a reviews listed here, we approaching more. This book reads like a soap opera, finish with cancer, rape, adultery, a tornado, paternity testing, porn, a wife-beater, pregnancies, baby innate but a brain, warn -- someone comes out as a lesbian, a run-away wife, someone in a coma, murder/euthanasia, etc. we don't know because we kept reading, we wish we had stopped, generally before reading a final chapter.
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