The Book Behind Oprah’s Queen Sugar

Earlier this month, Oprah Winfrey and director Ava DuVernay premiered their new Queen Sugar series on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
The show follows the family drama of the Bordelon siblings: Charley (an NBA wife and manager), Nova (a journalist and activist), and Ralph (out of jail and trying to provide for his son) are pulled from their separate lives back to rural Louisiana by their father’s death and their inheritance of his enormous, untilled sugarcane farm.
But what many may not know is