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In this tightly written first novel, an urbanite from Los Angeles, Charley Bordelon, moves with her 11-year-old daughter to her father's old hometown in rural Louisiana to farm sugar cane on 800 acres of land left to her in his will. A black woman who had been struggling financially as a teacher, Charley is alternately frightened and exhilarated by the prospect of competi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More