Sugar

by Christopher Pilie

Overview

Christopher Pilie's long-anticipated historical fiction novel Sugar explores the life of those who lived on the island of Saint Domingue in the late 18th Century. These people were part of a very complicated cast system made up of several groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798341887671
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/31/2025
Edition description:	Illustrated
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Christopher Pilie’ was born in 1974 and grew up near the city of New Orleans. His family has been a part of the foundation of the historic parts of the French Quarter. While growing up in New Orleans and the deep south, Christopher learned about the region’s complex socio-economic culture and became fascinated with its origins and evolution. Through his studies, he learned of the cultural influences of the Spanish, Germans, French, English, Native Americans, Haitians, and Africans and became fascinated by the ways these cultures clashed and melded together.


In 2019, while exploring his genealogy, Christopher discovered the fascinating explosion of revolutionary activity in the world in the late 18th century. Being a mostly self-educated student of history through his fascination with the rise of Western Civilization, he became convinced that the year of 1791 was the fulcrum that changed the West and the world forever. It was this year that the Haitian Revolution began, which in part marked the beginning of the end to monarchies all around the western world.


Christopher is also an artist who focuses mostly on building his private collection as well as the maintaining the collection of his late mother, artist Patricia Pilie’s, personal collection. He has created the “Crimson Rada” effort to share his creative endeavors with the world through his vision of art, literature, philosophy, and spirituality.