She meets real-life blues legend Lead Belly, marries a warden (part of both her escape and imprisonment), and becomes a stepmother - but her life spirals downward with the deaths of the two men. "Sugar Land follows a smart and feisty lesbian liberating herself from prisons literal and figurative in Depression-era West Texas. Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful novel about the heart’s refusal to be denied what the heart wants. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)―but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. It’s 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend―who also happens to be a girl. Sugar Land is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation.
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