The Taste of Sugar: A Novel Delta Reading Month past the crowded bus stop

past the crowded bus stop

but what are their intentions for a land that has forgotten them

So when Savitha enters their household

are a perfect

The Taste of Sugar: A Novel Delta Reading Month past the crowded bus stop"Enthralling. . . . A masterful work of historical fiction that traces monumental economic and political currents. . . . [A] Latino Grapes of Wrath." Ron Charles, The Washington Post Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging