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Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley must balance the overwhelming challenges of her farm with the demands of a homesick daughter, a bitter and troubled brother, and the startling desires of her own heart.
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About Natalie Baszile
Natalie Baszile is the author of the nonfiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest and the novel Queen Sugar, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and adapted for television by writer and director Ava DuVernay, co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. She has an MA degree in African American studies from the University of California at Los Angeles and earned an MFA at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
About Miriam Hyman
Miriam Hyman is a Philadelphia native and graduate of Yale School of Drama. She is the 2011 Princess Grace recipient of the George C. Wolfe Award in Theater. She has worked with the Public Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Freedom Theater. She has also made guest appearances on 20 Rock, The Wire, Law & Order, and Conviction.