When their mother dies, the four adult children in The Sugar Bowl Feud must make decisions about who gets what. It shouldn’t be difficult—their mother, Babs, who lived in small-town Nova Scotia, didn’t have a large estate. Except…she told one of the siblings there was something of considerable value in plain sight. Could it be the six-sided sugar bowl that all the siblings want?
As anyone who has ever been in that situation knows, dividing up a late parent’s belongings is about much more than the dollar value of the items left behind. It’s also about old grievances, unrealized dreams, sibling rivalry, regret, and love. As they work on dealing with their mother’s assets—and solving the riddle of the one valuable item—Courtney and her siblings, twins Brando and Brandi and younger half-sister Mona, fall into their old and predictable family patterns. But they also surprise one another with new knowledge of the larger truths of who each of them has become.
In this charming and insightful novel, Gina N. Brown explores family themes with clear-eyed honesty, while employing a deliciously light touch and just the right amount of humour to make the book easy to enjoy and hard to put down.