1937 Sugar ignored the knocking and pulled the covers tighter. Tears dripped down her cheek. “God, why must I…
Patchwork a Serialized Novel
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1980 Leaning gently on the lace tablecloth, Sugar’s graceful hand rattled the spoon rhythmically against the eggshell porcelain cup…
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2013 The three of us walked into the large common room on the fourth floor of the Blue Goose,…
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1896 “There’s nothing we can do – she’s gone,” the midwife said, shaking her head, patting Suzan’s shoulder as Phinizy…
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1991 “David, it’s Jake. I’m calling again, about …” “Hi Jake, I remember,” David said in his animated…
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1920 Sugar leaned over the ship’s rail, marveling at the swirling yellow and blue colors in the sea below.…
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1981 Jake awoke, wiping the layer of sweat off his forehead. He thought the ringing was only in his…
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1936 Sugar awoke when the sun rose above the flowering Chinese plum trees – as she had each day…
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1897 Each time Suzan tried to nurse her daughter, Sugar would only take a little milk in her mouth…
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2013 “Why am I telling you about problems with my first husband?” Emma Kate said. “I’ve never even met…
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1944 Sugar tried keeping the children’s attention on the makeshift classroom’s wood-planked wall, on which she had crudely scratched…
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1936 Sugar knew something wasn’t right with her first pregnancy. She loved being in China, but hated being so…
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1981 “I don’t want this book to be about my life in the Japanese internment camp in China,” Sugar…
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1902 Sugar could tell when her parents were about to begin an argument. She hated those moments more than…
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1913 When Sugar walked into Sunday School, her eyes immediately focused on the serious Chinese girl seated in the…
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1980 Jake looked up at the courthouse lobby directory, eventually settling on Judge Bacheller Flythe, one of the many…
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1945 “The Japanese guarding our concentration camp knew the war was over,” Sugar recalled as she gazed off beyond…
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1943 After nearly two years of imprisonment in the Anqing internment camp, Sugar noticed her legs began to atrophy…
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1980 “I’ll bring extra copies of your newspaper article on my way home tonight,” Jake told Sugar. Then he…
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1936 Sugar spent the long summer night crying in her bed, knowing something was wrong with her baby. She…
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1931 Sugar tried to stay focused on teaching the Chinese students in her class, but her mind kept drifting…
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1921 As Sugar explored the winding streets of her new Anqing home that all seemed to lead to the…
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1904 Sugar felt the storm coming. It was late. Her daddy was out, again. Earlier, Grace made Suzan a…
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1941 From her front door, Sugar watched the Japanese loading children onto the boats all day in Old Anqing…
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1980 “One thing I learned about the Chinese,” Sugar said, gently placing the porcelain coffee cup in its gold-rimmed…
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1981 Jake cut short his phone interview as the large newsroom clock ticked towards noon. He ran past the cluttered…
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1936 Sugar looked at the tattered edges of her patchwork quilt. Grace had sewn it from fragments of shirts and…
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2013 “Hi, my name is Jake and I’m sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if I could ask…
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1937 Through her bedroom window on the edge of the diplomatic quarter, high on the hill above downtown, Sugar…
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1945 “Momma, why is he wearing a sign?” David asked as they waited in the freezing cold rain. …