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An Amazon Best Book of January 2019: Jodi McCarty just can’t catch a break. Fresh out a 18-year stint in prison, for a mysterious crime we learn about as the story unfolds, she is eager to return to her slice of Shangri-La in the Appalachian Mountains. But first she takes a detour that, however well-meaning, ends up threatening to throw her aim of staying on the straight and narrow off course. Mesha Maren packs a lot into Sugar Run, a Southern noir that follows our heroine’s dogged attempts to rebuild her life, efforts that are stymied by things both outside and inside her control (for starters, the woman has woefully terrible taste in romantic partners). Maren writes beautifully and with keen insight, but what makes this debut truly special is her ability to engender compassion in deeply flawed characters; that’s the power of good fiction. --Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review
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One of Southern Living's Best New Books of Winter 2019 “The literary lineages here are hard-boiled fiction and film noir, but on every page of her debut novel, Mesha Maren creates bold new takes on those venerable genres, a much needed refresh of worn tropes and clichés. Maren is masterly at describing America’s modern wastelands, the blasted towns not yet and maybe never-to-be the beneficiaries of rehabilitation and reoccupation. You can almost see Maren—like Raymond Chandler—cutting each typed page into three strips and requiring each strip to contain something delightful (startling simile, clever dialogue, brilliant description) offered to the reader as a recompense for a world that presses up against you all raw and aggressive and dangerous. A language that fully owns its power to capture just that 'heart-wild magic.' ”—Charles Frazier, The New York Times Book Review “A darkly steamy first novel . . . ravishingly rugged . . . a literary page-turner, hair-raising in both plot and prose. Maren writes with windswept grace and stark sensuality."—O, The Oprah Magazine “Sugar Run is a shining debut, with a heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose. This is a book that loves its wounded characters and troubled places, and in so deeply loving, it finds a terrible truth and beauty where other writers wouldn't have found the courage to look. I'm glad to be among the first to sing the praise of this young writer when I say that Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.”—Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies “Crisp as mountain air and full of grit and heart, Maren’s writing announces a new voice in the Appalachian noir genre.” —Garden & Gun “We love Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run, a gritty noir novel like you’ve never read before.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tense, atmospheric Southern noir spiked with queer themes, Sugar Run weaves between two timelines in its depiction of Jodi, a woman just finishing an 18-year prison sentence.”—Entertainment Weekly (The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019) “Sugar Run throttles . . . The clip is fast and exciting.”—Wall Street Journal “Through exquisite prose and beautifully nuanced storytelling, Maren offers a complicated examination of love, identity, the passage of time, and the way small decisions can propel a life forward. . . . undeniably tender.”—Bustle “In her darkly crackling debut novel, Mesha Maren takes readers for a wild ride, the kind that feels like you’re hurtling down a backwoods road at night, not quite sure if you’re ever going to be able to stop, wondering if you might even suddenly take flight. Maren’s story jumps back-and-forth in time, following the lives of two women, both aching with their need for love and freedom. Maren details the struggles and triumphs of these women with unflinching precision and language as beautiful and ferocious as a summer storm.”—Nylon.com (50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019) “In Masha Maren's impressive debut, Jodi McCarty is released from prison after an 18-year sentence and is determined not to repeat past mistakes. While wandering around the South, she meets a young woman named Miranda, who has just left an abusive relationship. Together, they go looking for someone from Jodi's past and head to West Virginia—followed by the demons that haunt them both. This slow-burning novel asks if we can ever really escape the past and start over.”—RealSimple.com “Character-driven . . . Sugar Run gains its strength from Maren’s uncompromising storytelling and her insistence on showing even the most painful realities . . . Seamless.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Intriguing . . . lyrical . . . Maren adroitly incorporates issues surrounding poverty in rural America into her narrative, including drug dealing and addiction; lack of jobs; fracking, which destroys communities and the land’s ecological health; and gun violence, which can change everything in a moment. Maren’s story is engaging and full of damaged and provocative characters who, like all of us, can be misled by our hearts.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Caught in the divide between the haves and the have-nots, Jodi is a perfect illustration of the fallacy that good intentions and hard work reap success . . . she does the best she can, tugging her heartstrings tight around her substitute family of misfits, each one of them desperate to escape their messy past lives. But in her effort to save everyone else, she risks losing sight of herself.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Take a chance on an unfamiliar author and be rewarded with a fresh perspective, original language and a bold plot . . . Raw, unsentimental language saturates this atmospheric novel and realistically depicts the texture and tenor of a former convict’s first days of freedom . . . Mesha Maren’s debut may be bleak, but it is so honest in its depiction of the families we are born into as well as those we create, and how we make the same mistakes we've made before, even when we think we’re not.”—Addison County Independent “The interlocked and heartbreaking stories of Jodi and Miranda and Lee and Paula and Paula’s simple, badly used brother unfold in language that is just plain grittily gorgeous. These are stories of violence and passion and squashed hope . . . and you will feel every word. A highly recommended debut.—Library Journal (starred review) “Remarkable . . . An accomplished short story writer, Maren makes her debut count with emotionally charged prose and a sense of the yearning we all have for home.”—BookPage “Maren writes beautifully and with keen insight, but what makes this debut truly special is her ability to engender compassion in deeply flawed characters; that’s the power of good fiction.”—Amazon Book Review “There’s an awful lot of talk about the underrepresentation of rural (or suburban, or urban) working class life in the higher echelons of American literary culture. And while to some extent that might be true, the stories are there, as are the writers, we just need to pay attention. To wit, Mesha Maren’s debut novel, about a young woman’s return to rural West Virginia after 18 years in prison, deserves your attention.”—Lit Hub “In Maren's darkly engrossing debut novel, two women yearning for freedom fall in love, but the secrets of the past and betrayals in the present threaten to crush them. [She] skillfully handles a dual plot, alternating chapters set in the near-present and 20 years before. The novel's noir tone and taut suspense are enriched by Maren's often lovely prose, especially in descriptions of the natural world, and sharp observations . . . This impressive first novel combines beautifully crafted language and a steamy Southern noir plot to fine effect.”—Kirkus Reviews “Maren’s impressive debut is replete with luminous prose that complements her cast of flawed characters.”—Publishers Weekly “Dread and a lush natural world infuse Maren's noir-tinged debut as she carefully relays soul-crushing realities and myths of poverty and privilege, luck and rehabilitation, and the human needs that can precede criminality through love-starved loner Jodi and her band of fellow hungry souls.”—Booklist “In her debut, Sugar Run, novelist Mesha Maren plumbs the human dimensions of the economic and opioid addiction crises of rural West Virginia. And she does so with the kind of attentiveness and sensitivity that invites favorable comparison with the work of writers like Chris Offutt and Tony Earley.”—Shelf Awareness (starred review) “Mesha Maren’s timely debut novel, Sugar Run, is a roughly honest and poetic exploration of a sense of self in 21st century Appalachia, and of contemporary rural America. The story engages with the truths of mass incarceration in our country, gender identity, self-discovery and a sense of place.”—Asheville Citizen Times “Maren’s storytelling style is starkly unique. She creates a dynamic between the past and present that reveals just enough to keep you invested in the story . . . enjoyable.”—The DA “The arch was dramatic, fresh and gritty, and Maren powerfully depicted the repetitive nature of personal mistakes, despite a change in environment. This makes the protagonist endearing and sincere . . . Maren ultimately shines a light on queer Appalachian women and tackles land usage, fracking and property rights in her verbose debut novel . . . Sugar Run is particularly important because of its highlight of issues in small-town, underprivileged communities.”—The Daily Emerald “Sugar Run, the strong and insightful first novel from Mesha Maren, puts stories to lives that are ordinarily overlooked, exploring damaged souls and damaged land, the need for that redemptive sense of connection to places and people. Maren writes prose that moves us ever deeper into her world without strain, but with sureness and vivid details. Drugs and flaring tempers, old wounds, and people who feel without hope but still dream of hope." —Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone “Gorgeous sentences . . . Mesha Maren is a writer to watch.” —Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark “Sugar Run is a joyride--an intoxicating, headlong exploration of the hazards of freedom and the deadly consequence of desire. Maren's blistering prose will take your breath away.”—C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World "With Sugar Run, Mesha Maren announces herself as a wholly original voice in contemporary fiction. Full of diamond sharp sentences and perfect pacing, the novel runs wild like a mountain flash flood. In Jodi and Miranda and Paula, Maren gives us something we’ve needed for a long time now. Something new.”—Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia "Sugar Run is one of the most riveting novels I’ve read in years. How rare it is to find a writer who brings the reader so deeply into the physical world, letting her fully inhabit a place, a time, a character’s physical being, while also propelling a plot forward with the kind of momentum not often found so perfectly wedded to such beautiful language, such languid and sensual and potent imagery. The atmosphere of Sugar Run will cling to this reader for months, after which she will read it again. This is the debut of a major new voice, one who offers us a reality more vibrant than our reality, but honest, raw, and believable."—Laura Kasischke, author of Mind of Winter “This grim tale of West Virginia should be depressing reading. But it is so beautifully written, in an often lyrical prose that can conjure up mountains effortlessly…that you feel as if you’ve entered an entirely new realm, however marginalized and doomed . . . This is a splendid, rich, perceptive novel on all fronts. It will stun, shock, delight and linger with you long after it’s over.”—Providence Journal “The novel begins in a prison, but the colors are remarkably vivid from the start . . . The prose is hauntingly beautiful, filled with longing and loss and memories of a past that can never be again . . . At its heart, Sugar Run is a novel about love and loss, family and friends, past and present, and the conflict between the two . . . Reality can shatter your dreams, this book tells us. But it can also bring hope. This is not a forgettable story.”—The Reed College Quest
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Product details
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books; General edition (January 8, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616206217
ISBN-13: 978-1616206215
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.3 out of 5 stars
29 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#26,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Sometimes a novelist stuns the reader not by experimenting with form, not by expressing some previously unfathomed idea, but by finding new characters who have a story yet to be told.Sugar Run is one of those novels. Ostensibly a girls on the run adventure about two damaged women trying to rebuild their lives on ancestral land, it is most successful at simply narrating what life is like for those who proverbially slip through the cracks of respectable society.A glance at the TV menu makes you think that Americans prefer their characters, even in the most obnoxious of reality shows, to be from the privileged classes. If the lower classes do appear it is as trashy characters so that we can all feel superior.What makes Sugar Run distinctive is to make the protagonists the type of people most Americans would rarely see, still less get to know, and make them sympathetic to all but the hardest heart. A teenage runaway, in prison for murdering her older lesbian lover, reveals a desire for rootedness, mothering and need to be seen as she really is inside. Another character escapes with pills following the pattern she has shown her whole life: always trying to escape from home, never reaching the promised land.If the above seems a little too much like the Dostoevskian prostitute with a heart of gold, it isn’t. Where Dostoevsky uses somewhat cliched characters to make his philosophical points, Maren is more interested in simply exploring the depths of her characters and narrating their story.And what a story it is. Set in rural Georgia and West Virginia, the story rolls from one adventure to another. Although some of it is retrospectively unbelievable, the terse prose and original narration makes one suspend disbelief and want to keep turning each page.If you want something genuinely new that at the same time preserves the traditional form of the novel you cannot go wrong with Sugar Run. Crisp prose, sympathetic characters and old-fashioned storytelling all make for an impressive debut novel.
A sugar run is a poker player's version of a winning streak. "Just one night, with one sweet sugar run, and you're hooked," says Paula, an astonishingly gifted player who walks into back rooms all over the Midwest smiling sweetly as she scoops up money from the local rednecks.Paula is the first of two lesbian lovers of Jodi, the protagonist of this gritty tale. Her story takes place in 1988, and the second lover, Miranda, inhabits 2007. In between, Jodi serves 18 years in Jaxton Federal jail for the (accidental?) manslaughter of Paula. The book interleaves the two timeframes in a way that I didn't find very useful or particularly illuminating.Just about every character in this book could be described as "a low-life, feckless and reckless" (Question: can anyone be feckful or reckful?) Motel rooms, honky-tonk barrooms and gas stations are their natural milieu, and they may be permanently broke (except the talented Paula) but they always seem to have enough for smokes of two kinds, pills of many kinds, and booze. Jodi's piratical brother Dennis has access to much stronger stuff, and wants his big sister to hide it for him on her dead grandmother's property in West Virginia. Jodi expected to inherit the spread, and she's made the trek to this bucolic setting along with Miranda, Miranda's three kids, and Miranda's (also feckless) brother. But après-prison life turns out to be far from a sugar run. She finds that the land has been sold to pay taxes while she was in prison, and the fracking crews are closing in, making the local tap water flammable and lighting the night skies with their flare-offs.It's a very good set-up, but we never actually find out whether Jodi gets the land back, or whether she ends up back in custody after flagrantly violating the terms of her supervised release. Loose ends spray out in every direction, and the closing scenes seem to have been written with the movie rights in mind.This is a first novel, and it's undeniably impressive but way too long. The editor in me was itching to reduce its 336 pages (paperback edition) by 20%. However, it's a tribute to the writing style that I read it all through without skipping. I liked it best when the author was being direct, describing the various misbehaviors of her characters, but much less when she was scene-setting. She seems to think things are best described by their smells, so she gives us, among other flavors, "dust, cigarettes, and lemon-oil cleaning spray," "fast food and anxiety" (that one describes the sweat of one of Paula's poker-table victims,) "urine and curdled milk," "fish and diesel fumes," "farts and old flowers," and finally "The air tasted of dirty sugar and gasoline" (at a country fair.) To me, that's a dog's view of the world.
You know how in young adult horror movies you want to scream at the screen "No, don't go to the attic-basement-barn alone!" This book had me similarly ready to knock pills out of characters' hands, run a broomstick down the bar spilling all their drinks and puncturing their tires so they couldn't wreak havoc on anyone else. It pushes every "suck it up, buttercup" button I've got.There are books that inspire empathy with abused, misguided, down-trodden, disadvantaged characters. This isn't one of them. There are books that evoke the individual's struggle against corporate environmental rape (Here delivered as fracking). This isn't one of them. Even the children in "Sugar Run" are unsympathetic.Maren is a highly skilled author. But this is just a mess.
This is a disjointed book that jumps from place to place and back and forth over 20 years. The characters are remarkably unsympathetic. The ending was abysmal. I would normally be annoyed with an ending like this, but i was so happy it was actually over. There is not one character you can root for. Not one that makes a good/ sensible choice. I get that the author is trying to portray Appalachia, but my god every person can't be this messed up from there.
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