Filthy Sugar
Babcock, Heather
Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a nineteen-year-old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store, but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her hard-working widowed mother and shrewd older sister, Evelyn, in the "slums" behind the city's marketplace, a world where "death is always close but life is stubborn." Bored with the daily grind and still in shock from the sudden death of her father...