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119881Bernice L. McFadden6968450falseSun Aug 26 16:07:00 -0700 2007Sat Dec 15 22:43:19 -0800 2007 My first reaction while reading this book was a combination of shock and horror. The shock was due to the announcement that Pearl Taylor's fifteen-year-old daughter Jude was dead. The horror came when I learned that her killer cut away her womanhood with a knife and left it lying beside her body along the road. Jude's death hits this small black community hard because even though they suspect someone white did it, they feel there is nothing they can do about it. Therefore, it is not surprising that Pearl emotionally shut downs and withdraws from everyone including her sons and her beloved husband, Joe. Even though she physically moves about the community and continues to work faithfully in the church, she is numb to everything and everyone that is until . . . Sugar Lacey moves to town.