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  1. Natalie Baszile debuts with an irresistible tale of family, community, personal obligation, and personal reinvention. The world is full of things that keep you down and things that lift you up—Queen Sugar is about both and in approximately equal measure. Smart and heart-felt and highly recommended.”

  2. 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.

  3. May 17, 2021 · Oakland resident Natalie Baszile’s first book, the novel Queen Sugar, was a huge hit. The story of a young Black woman in Los Angeles who inherits a sugar cane farm in rural Louisiana was not only critically acclaimed, it was also made into a five-season television series with none other than Oprah Winfrey serving as executive producer.

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  4. Apr 5, 2016 · Natalie Baszile. Natalie has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. An early version of Queen Sugar won the Hurston Wright College Writer’s Award, was a co-runner up in the Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Novel-in-Progress competition ...

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  5. Oct 5, 2016 · Natalie Baszile is the author of the best-selling novel Queen Sugar, which was adapted by Ava DuVernay for OWN. In this interview, she talks about her inspiration, her journey, and her connection to the south and the land.

  6. Apr 6, 2021 · Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American ...

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