Sugar Land Author:Tammy Lynne Stoner A southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation. It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend -- who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his... more » way out (true story) -- but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. SUGAR LAND is a triumphant novel that manages to be funny and endearing even as it tangles with race, class, and the fate of misfits.« less