![]() But this is not a fairy tale, and happy endings are in short supply: Sara’s circle also includes Amos, Will’s here-now-and-gone-again father, a drinker and gambler and Lucky, who is willing to do anything to get the money that Amos owes him. Coulter, one of Will’s teachers, forever giving Will extra assignments to expand his mind Cora and Lawrence Morgan, a doctor and his wife from Mama Sugar’s church and Ms. Vanellys, Mama Sugar’s husband Elvin and Buster, two long-term boarders William, Mama Sugar’s grandson and all the other boarders who come and go on their way through Memphis. In Mama Sugar’s boardinghouse, Sara settles in her son, Lebanon, is born and the days begin to flow by as she helps take care of Mr. Her best friends, Naomi and Violet, helped her make her way to Memphis, where Naomi’s aunt Mama Sugar welcomes her with open arms. Sara’s life has been difficult, and in Memphis, she finds herself trying to hide from her demons-physical and mental-from back in Chicago. In the early 1960s, a pregnant Black woman flees Chicago and makes her way to Memphis. ![]()
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