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The Tournament of Books Best of 2018 Long List Bustle's 15 New Paperbacks for Your Fall Reading List Liz & Lisa's Best Books of October 2018 Powell's Staff Pick, October Deep South magazine, Fall-Winter Reading List Another Read Through's December Book Club pick Shelf Awareness Book Trailer of the Day (scroll down on this link) |
"A powerful paperback that doesn't pull any emotional punches, Sugar Land is a debut you don't want to miss." - Bustle
"With a lively sense of humor and a great sense of place, tammy lynne stoner’s debut is a Southern novel from a voice that rings true ... with keen insight into race, class, gender identity and social norms, Sugar Land is the story of a woman learning to come home to herself." - BookPage "A postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil rights, tracing the treatment and awareness of gay people through these decades... 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..." - Foreword Reviews (5 star review) "Don’t miss this Southern coming-of-age gem..." - Hello Giggles "...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) |