Sugarland — Joni Rodgers

Fiction. This is the story of the Smithers sisters -- Kit and Kiki. As children, they performed throughout Texas as the Sugar Babes, but those glory days of county fair stages, adoring fans, and glod lame gowns are long gone. Now Kit and Kiki are grown up. All that remains are the blues these sisters sing as they learn to cope with the vicissitudes of real life: withering marriages, cheating spouses, balloon mortgages, lost opportunities, the demands of motherhood. Heartbreaking and hilarious, SUGARLAND is the story of how two modern goddesses earn their wings by coming to terms with life and death and everything in between. Every character in this novel resonates with life. This talanted author knows how to bring paper-and-ink people to flesh-and-blood fufillment -- Southern Living.