The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Fiction_Gift_Guide and I couldn’t be more

and I couldn’t be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves

including Zora Neale Hurston-to the foundation of the quilting community of Gee's Bend-a Black artistic circle whose cultural influence remains enormous

just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world

the traffic school of the information highway

and joyful portrait of an American Sweetheart— a Southern Baptist celebutante

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Fiction_Gift_Guide and I couldn’t be moreIn this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Mtis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award Honor Book! Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice cream