Sugar Town queens
Nunn, Malla2021
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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.
Main title:
Sugar Town queens / Malla Nunn.
Author:
Nunn, Malla, author
Imprint:
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.©2021.
Collation:
291, 10 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes an excerpt from "When the ground is hard".Sugar Town Queens is the story of a place and a family divided. It is the story of friendship and first love. Most of all, it is a powerful tale of three generations of women who join forces to fight against prejudice and violence.
Audience:
Secondary
ISBN:
9781760526832 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
Teenage girls -- FictionSingle mothers -- FictionMothers and daughters -- FictionRacially mixed people -- FictionFamily secrets -- FictionPoverty -- FictionSquatter settlements -- FictionVisions -- FictionFamilies -- South Africa -- FictionAuthors, AustralianAustralian Children's Book of the Year Awards -- Short-List, 2022South Africa -- FictionYoung adult fiction
BRN:
406177
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Teenage Fiction | NUNN | Available |