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"The love child of Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown, stoner is sure to win her own devoted following with this ravishing debut." - STARRED Kirkus Review
"...always surprising and exhilarating ... A lovely debut..." - Booklist "This is writing at its finest..." - New York Journal of Books "Quietly powerful ... Sugar Land is a raw, spiraling, and hopeful story..." - Forewords magazine (5 star review) "...a heartfelt story of what it meant to be ‘different’ in the Deep South during the middle 20th century." - Author Link reviews "...a captivating story for the ages—a young, southern girl in the 1920s who becomes a ballsy broad in a double-wide ... This heartbreaking and hysterical book inspires us with a brave and unusual life." - Jillian Lauren, New York Times bestselling author "With beautiful peculiarity of detail and a perfect combination of sharpness and sensitivity, tammy lynne stoner pens a gorgeous debut novel about race, class, sexuality, and the prisons we make of ourselves." - Gigi Little, Powell's book seller "Every page has a beating heart, every character is so alive, you swear you hear them breathing. stoner is an original and this debut is just fantastic." - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author "stoner's debut story of a young woman trying to find her way in the world is both light and profound." -Powell's staff pick (Dianah) |