![]() ![]() As Mama Sugar rebuilds, romance blossoms between Sara and Jonas, who does not hesitate to marry her even after she reveals her reason for fleeing Chicago while pregnant. Will’s shiftless father, Amos, runs afoul of a loan shark, leading to him being beaten and then the arson of the boarding house. Sara, though, surprises elementary schoolteacher Jonas Coulter, who has taken a special interest in Mama Sugar’s grandson Will, by being well-read. ![]() In 1960s Memphis, sharp-tongued Sara King lives and works at the boarding house of the formidable Mama Sugar, who asks no questions of Sara about her background or her obvious resistance to mothering her son, Lebanon, whom she gave birth to shortly after arriving from Chicago. West draws on characters from her 2020 novel Saving Ruby King in this dramatic if uneven story of a young Black mother who builds a makeshift family. ![]()
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