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Sugar Doll's Hurricane Blues Romance Author: Kalua Lauber Amazon.com Barnes and Nobles.com Published February, 2010

Sugar Doll's Hurricane Blues is a novel by the American writer Kalua Lauber. Set during Hurricane Katrina it follows the life of aspiring singer Sugar Doll. The romance follows the young singer and her love interest Remy.

Major Themes:

Mother/Daughter Relationships:

Sugar Doll is reared by her grandmother after the murder of her father. Her mother leaves her to move in with her lover the crime boss Tony Marsalas. The mother is a glamorous and distant figure as Sugar Doll grows up in the rural Plaquemines Parish. She later reconnects with her mother and finds out secrets which her mother has kept hidden.

Interracial Relationships:

Sugar Doll takes a chance on the handsome and charming Remy even though she is warned that he may just be using her.

Detail:

The loss of her father and the abandonment of her mother gives Sugar Doll the type of inner resolve that helps her to survive in the city that time forgot, New Orleans.

A romance blooms between singers, the lovely Creole girl nicknamed Sugar Doll and handsome Remy Gaudeaux who come together even as the seedy undercurrent of the Marsalas crime family threatens to tear them apart. Connections run far and wide in this family with Mona's passion becoming the torment for all. Tony Marsalas, dangerous, sexy, controlling, everything that a woman wants and fears in a man changes the destinies of everyone.

Hurricane Katrina does more than devastate the city of New Orleans. It lays bare family secrets. This story is one of redemption and forgiveness between a mother and daughter long separated by pride. The beauty of New Orleans is in its people. The pain and the pleasures of the city threaten to be its undoing. Sugar Doll's Hurricane Blues is a love story that compels the reader to follow them to the very heart of the matter.