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- “It was like her father said: never make people glad twice-glad to see you come, and glad to see you go” ― Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar
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18 quotes from Natalie Baszile: 'It was like her father said: never make people glad twice-glad to see you come, and glad to see you go', 'Every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror, I see a black face and I love it.
Queen Sugar is the debut novel of American writer Natalie Baszile, published by Penguin in 2014. Set in contemporary Louisiana, it tells the story of Charley Bordelon, a young African-American widow from Los Angeles who moves to a rural town to manage a sugarcane farm she had unexpectedly inherited there from her father.
Oct 5, 2016 · I recently had the immense pleasure of catching up with Natalie Baszile, the author of the best selling novel Queen Sugar, in San Francisco. Queen Sugar is a story of exile and return. Of blood and sweat and love and hate, of family and the soil of a Louisiana sugar cane farm.
- Misan Sagay
May 17, 2021 · Oakland author Natalie Baszile on why ‘Black land matters’ ‘We Are Each Other’s Harvest’ reveals the struggle that Black farmers have faced against systemic racism and celebrates their successes and tenacity.
- Elise Proulx
Feb 6, 2014 · A mother-daughter story of reinvention—about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon’s late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous.
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Mar 12, 2014 · A vibrant novel detailing life in the South and the backbreaking, brutal, yet rewarding life that is sugarcane farming today. Queen Sugar, the debut novel from Natalie Baszile, is a book deeply steeped in its rich setting — the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana.
Apr 6, 2021 · In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today.
- Natalie Baszile
