Sugar Town Queens

De: Malla Nunn

Narrado por: Bahni Turpin

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.

Excellent!

Malla Nunn has done it again. An interesting social commentary about growing up in a world that is difficult to navigate in the best of times. When times aren't the best it becomes important to find your way, hopefully with some help from unexpected places.

Awesome listen

The reader made the entire read so believable. Felt every word and imagined myself sitting on the side watching the entire story unfold!

LGBT Agenda seems forced in every YA book

Good story based on South Africa. It does seem like the LGBT agenda seems forced in every YA book now. This one was no different. It was like the author wanted to check off every box of oppression (racism, sexism, classism, etc). Adding the two friends having some secret passion for each other seemed more forced…there was zero chemistry between the two.

Why couldn’t they all just be three young girls who grew up as friends? This “LGBT cancel culture” has people scared to be heterosexual without persecution. The fear is showing up in books now. Smh