Unrefined, Sugar
Welcome to Meander, Tennessee, circa 1957, smack dab in the middle of the ever-blooming, mayonnaise-slathering, kudzu-swarming, moonshine-swilling, deep-frying, Bible-beating, cotton-pickin' South. This is where the mayor runs white lightning out of the local cat house, Baptist preachers read girlie magazines and Jesus saves S&H Green Stamps. It's also where Anrita Harrington is Dixie's reigning chicken salad queen, Cassandra Maddox teaches her high school class plenty more than English, Sylvianne McNeil sets her cap for husband (and bourbon) number five, and, from her pillared mansion high atop the bluff, Eulalie "Miss Sugar" Saunders takes potshots with her late husband's elephant gun. Visitors who see Meander as a picture perfect Southern town have no idea what's simmering behind that genteel Magnolia Curtain. By the time folks gather on Labor Day to celebrate the town's 150th birthday, longtime feuds boil over like a pot of overheated grits, stirred to a fare-the-well by the mayor's wife, Fern Abernathy, the KKK, and none other than Hollywood movie star Robert Mitchum. Mud is literally flung, lives are wrecked and saved, arrests are made, history is rewritten and truths are exposed that should've stayed hidden where the sun don't shine. Unrefined, Sugar is one wacky, bittersweet, screwball page-turner.
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Unrefined, Sugar
Welcome to Meander, Tennessee, circa 1957, smack dab in the middle of the ever-blooming, mayonnaise-slathering, kudzu-swarming, moonshine-swilling, deep-frying, Bible-beating, cotton-pickin' South. This is where the mayor runs white lightning out of the local cat house, Baptist preachers read girlie magazines and Jesus saves S&H Green Stamps. It's also where Anrita Harrington is Dixie's reigning chicken salad queen, Cassandra Maddox teaches her high school class plenty more than English, Sylvianne McNeil sets her cap for husband (and bourbon) number five, and, from her pillared mansion high atop the bluff, Eulalie "Miss Sugar" Saunders takes potshots with her late husband's elephant gun. Visitors who see Meander as a picture perfect Southern town have no idea what's simmering behind that genteel Magnolia Curtain. By the time folks gather on Labor Day to celebrate the town's 150th birthday, longtime feuds boil over like a pot of overheated grits, stirred to a fare-the-well by the mayor's wife, Fern Abernathy, the KKK, and none other than Hollywood movie star Robert Mitchum. Mud is literally flung, lives are wrecked and saved, arrests are made, history is rewritten and truths are exposed that should've stayed hidden where the sun don't shine. Unrefined, Sugar is one wacky, bittersweet, screwball page-turner.
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Unrefined, Sugar

Unrefined, Sugar

by Michael Llewellyn
Unrefined, Sugar

Unrefined, Sugar

by Michael Llewellyn

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Welcome to Meander, Tennessee, circa 1957, smack dab in the middle of the ever-blooming, mayonnaise-slathering, kudzu-swarming, moonshine-swilling, deep-frying, Bible-beating, cotton-pickin' South. This is where the mayor runs white lightning out of the local cat house, Baptist preachers read girlie magazines and Jesus saves S&H Green Stamps. It's also where Anrita Harrington is Dixie's reigning chicken salad queen, Cassandra Maddox teaches her high school class plenty more than English, Sylvianne McNeil sets her cap for husband (and bourbon) number five, and, from her pillared mansion high atop the bluff, Eulalie "Miss Sugar" Saunders takes potshots with her late husband's elephant gun. Visitors who see Meander as a picture perfect Southern town have no idea what's simmering behind that genteel Magnolia Curtain. By the time folks gather on Labor Day to celebrate the town's 150th birthday, longtime feuds boil over like a pot of overheated grits, stirred to a fare-the-well by the mayor's wife, Fern Abernathy, the KKK, and none other than Hollywood movie star Robert Mitchum. Mud is literally flung, lives are wrecked and saved, arrests are made, history is rewritten and truths are exposed that should've stayed hidden where the sun don't shine. Unrefined, Sugar is one wacky, bittersweet, screwball page-turner.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781987559996
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 06/05/2018
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Michael Llewellyn is the author of 22 published books under various pen names in historical fiction, adventure, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction travel. A native of Fountain City, Tennessee, Michael comes from a long line of Southern writers and memoirists. A passionate traveler, Michael has visited over forty countries where he encountered a 6.0 Athens earthquake, a Hong Kong typhoon and malaria in Brazil. He's zip-lined in Costa Rica, white water rafted Bali's Ayung River, jungle trekked Guatemala, climbed inside the Great Pyramid and survived eleven Mardi Gras celebrations. He is married and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Visit him at michael-llewellyn.net
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