![]() ![]() As a side note, I’m not crazy about the title, I think there were so many opportunities for a better title to really embrace the essence of the book. This is a story of Black reality, and learning to love despite trauma. She is particularly pessimistic about church, which I found to be an interesting way of portraying a character. She is closed-off and scorned, clearly carrying a heavy load on her own. ![]() West keeps us entertained the entire time with more and more information about Sara’s life in Chicago. We are given small clues to her past through letters from old friends and mini-flashbacks. She also struggles with early motherhood, and resentment towards her newborn, Lebanon. Sara takes solace in Mama Sugar’s boarding house in Memphis, and falls in love within those walls. ![]() There is news spreading of the Freedom Riders, a fight for Black rights across the country in the 1960s. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many moreAn utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves. We start in Mama Sugar’s arms, as Sara has run away from a life of shame in Chicago. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Catherine Adel West’s The Two Lives of Sara easily earned a glowing four star rating from me- the perfect Black History Month read. ![]() Mama Sugar is not the titular character, but she immediately stole my heart. “All she has is her name and every wipe of that bowl, every plate of delicious food, every clean comfortable room solidifies she’s a hard worker.” West, Catherine Adel. ![]()
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