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".Shortlisted for Children’s Book Council Awards 2022Shortlisted for Book of the Year: Older Readers CBCA 2022
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9781760526832 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4F
Language:
English
Subject:
Racially mixed people -- FictionPoor -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionFamilies -- South Africa -- FictionTeenage girls -- FictionSingle mothers -- FictionMothers and daughters -- FictionSquatter settlements -- FictionVisions -- FictionFamily secrets -- FictionSouth Africa -- FictionBildungsromansYoung adult fiction
BRN:
573922