“She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, delicate and trim, blue-eyed and fair-haired. There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over there less beautiful daughters. Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume. Josey could never do that. The closest she ever came was the attention she used to receive when she pitched legendary fits in public when she was young. But that was making people look at her for all the wrong reasons.”
Quote by Sarah Addison Allen
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In this engaging story, readers are taken on a journey through the lives of the residents of a small town, where the annual Sugar Queen contest serves as a backdrop for a series of interconnected narratives. The contest, which celebrates the town's sugar beet industry, brings together a diverse group of characters, each with their own dreams, desires, and secrets. As the contest unfolds, the characters' lives intertwine, revealing the undercurrents of ambition, love, and the human condition. more
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