Sugar Town queens

Resource Information

The work Sugar Town queens represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Sugar Town queens

Statement of responsibility

Malla Nunn

Creator

• Nunn, Malla

Author

• Nunn, Malla

Subject

• Families -- South Africa -- Fiction
• Family secrets -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Poor -- Fiction
• Racially mixed people -- Fiction
• Secrecy -- Fiction
• Single mothers -- Fiction
• South Africa -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Visions -- Fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Squatter settlements -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Bildungsromans

Language

eng

Summary

When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looks -- that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown. But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. But what she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Adolescent

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adolescent