FAQ: Ninth Ward
You’ve written other books that take place in New Orleans and write with such affection for the characters if the Ninth Ward. Your connection to the South seems to run deep. Can you talk a little about that connection?My Grandmother Ernestine who raised me was a...
FAQ: Sugar
Tell us about Sugar in three sentences or less. Sugar is about a spirited, curious girl who wants to play with friends, listen to stories, and have fun. Instead, Sugar [my heroine], an orphan and ex-slave, has to work hard, all day, on a sugar cane plantation [tending...
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