The Taste of Sugar: A Novel MIDDLE GRADE from Empire actor and activist

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The Taste of Sugar: A Novel MIDDLE GRADE from Empire actor and activist"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