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Sugar Town Queens
Sugar Town Queens | Malla Nunn
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From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals. When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone--since before Amandla was born--and even her mother's memory of him is hazy. In fact, many of her mother's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is Black. When Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. What she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. But with her best friends at her side, Amandla is ready to take on family secrets and the devil himself. These Sugar Town queens are ready to take over the world to expose the hard truths of their lives.
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Eva_B
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This was a good YA read. Set in a township in Durban,South Africa it‘s a good book for young adults to gain a sense of South African life and the remnants of the apartheid era. Solid characters although a bit cliched. Interesting but at times a bit unrealistic but overall a good read.

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Charityann
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Really enjoyed this one! 📖🎃 #teamslaughter #scarathlon2021

ShelleyBooksie Awesome book sleeve 3y
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I felt such emotion for these characters and their journeys. I loved that when I started reading there was an idea in my mind that was totally transformed at the end. I feel like I went through it with these characters and I‘m just left with a bundle of emotions. Highly recommend this one! It blew me away!

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Anyway, onto Amplify Bookstore Bookhaul #2

This one might have been a purchase that was inspired by how gorgeous the cover is… but I am also a huge fan of the family secret / mystery trope - so I‘m pretty sure it‘s going to live up to its cover.

I was confused why it‘s not on Litsy more but it‘s an Australian author - so maybe it‘s not out everywhere yet?

CollapsingLibrary That cover 😍😍 I did the same thing when I bought The Gilded Ones 3 months ago and still haven‘t read it 🙈 3y
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