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First published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014
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Copyright © 2014 by Natalie Baszile
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Excerpt from A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence. Copyright © 1942 by the University of North Carolina Press, renewed 1970 by Elizabeth Lawrence. Used by permission of the University of North Carolina Press.
Quotation by Anne Wilkes Tucker from Carry Me Home: Louisiana Sugar Country, photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery (Smithsonian Institution, 1990). Used by permission of Anne Wilkes Tucker.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Baszile, Natalie.
Queen sugar : a novel / Natalie Baszile.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-698-15154-3
1. African-American women—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.A8523Q44 2014
813'.6—dc23
2013036789
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.