{"product_id":"sugar-land","title":"Sugar Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. According to a starred \u003cem\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e \"is a postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil rights, tracing the treatment and awareness of gay people through these decades. The love child of Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown… [a] ravishing debut.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend―who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)―but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. \u003cem\u003eSugar Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant, beautiful novel about the heart’s refusal to be denied what the heart wants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310154260862,"sku":"NW9781597096270","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781597096270.jpg?v=1778512536","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/sugar-land","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}