White Sugar, Brown Sugar
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0985804416 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
David "Jude" Armstrong and Roosevelt Harris meet at a basin of a yacht club. The tranquility of Jude Armstrong's safe, upper middle-class white world ends when his alcoholic mother tosses his father out of the house. It is a story of deep friendship, hope, strength, and inspiration.. Roosevelt, the black boy, and his family, fish with cane poles on the wall next to the street. He has never known a father, and his mother is a heroin addict who disappears for weeks at a time, and is incarcerated frequently. He has grown up with his grandparents. White Sugar, Brown Sugar is a novel set in Daytona Beach, Florida. The boys meet various times over the years. Neither boy understands the racial issues of the time. White Sugar, Brown Sugar follows their loss of innocence, submergence to the depths of desperation and eventual emergence as recovering adults. Jude and Roosevelt struggle to overcome their prior problems, and eventually lead normal and successful lives. An upper middle-class white boy from the peninsula, or beach-side, of the Inland Waterway, and a black boy of lesser means, who lives west of the railroad tracks, where Blacks (who were called Negroes and other names at the time) were required to live, become good friends, in spite of the racial separation in effec
"I never expected to still be alive at the old age of thirty nine" Sometimes a debut novel will really surprise the reader with its scope and depth. Such is the case with this one.Author Michael Pyle's White Sugar, Brown Sugar is a novel of many levels and spanning many years. Some will see it as a novel about race relations and discrimination in Florida during the 1960s. Others will see it as an exploration of drug and alcohol abuse, and subsequent recovery for some. But for this reader, it's a book about the triumph of t. Must read! Michael A. Pyle has written a novel that will pull at your heartstrings and root for Roosevelt and want him to overcome his demons. Some may see the theme of racial relationships in a desegregated South and others may perceive friendship, redemption, or recovery. I thought all of these were present in this piece. The characters were real and one could easily identify with the struggles that each character has to deal with. Despite a wealthier upbringing, Ju. Vivid, Gripping, Enjoyable So, I have this habit of picking books based on the cover and a few lines of description. I don't want to know too much I don't want anyone's preconceived notions to infiltrate my thoughts and personal feelings about the story.I'm always down for a book about racial discord and/or harmony, southern literature and stories about two people who have overcome what should tear them apart to come together. I thought this book was about a black boy and a white boy