{"product_id":"crushed-like-a-sugarcane-9798184583365","title":"Crushed Like a Sugarcane","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dencle McDonald\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - Clean \u0026amp; Wholesome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCRUSHED LIKE A SUGAR CANE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome men are built to perform. Marcus DuBois was one of them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaised in the sugar cane parishes of Louisiana by a mother whose faith was as steady as the tides and a father whose silence held the weight of generations, Marcus carried every expectation out of St. Mary Parish on a full scholarship and didn't look back. What followed were fifteen years of ruthless ambition, a beautiful marriage, a daughter who made lists to count the days until she saw him - and a slow, invisible unraveling that ended on the floor of a one-bedroom apartment in Kenner, a bottle within reach, with nothing left to perform for and no one left to fool. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome men are destroyed by the pressing. Others discover what they're made of.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrushed Like a Sugar Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Marcus and Seresse DuBois - told in two movements across two books - tracing one family's journey from dissolution to resurrection, through the particular alchemy of faith, forgiveness, and the relentless, unglamorous work of learning to love. From a drunk-driving arrest that costs him everything, to a jail cell where he finally runs out of alternatives to prayer, to the slow rebuilding of a life on ground that turns out to be far more solid than anything he previously constructed - Marcus's story is brutally honest about what collapse actually looks like, and luminous about what can grow from the roots that survive it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeresse's story runs alongside his: a woman of deep and practical faith navigating the impossible math of loving someone who cannot yet be reached, raising a daughter in the debris of a broken marriage, and learning - at a women's retreat, on her knees, years before any resolution was visible - that releasing someone can be the highest form of love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then there is Nia. Who made lists. Who prayed every night since she was small for a father she kept counting the days toward. Who inherited, without knowing it, the prayers of a great-great-grandfather she never met. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the sugar cane fields of south Louisiana, the crushing is not the end of the story. The sweetness is locked inside. It cannot be extracted any other way.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the imagery of the cane country where three generations of the DuBois family bent their backs over somebody else's harvest, this sweeping two-book novel weaves together the threads of ambition and inheritance, addiction and grace, the long patience of prayer, and the daily, demanding, deeply rewarding practice of genuine love. It is a story about what faith looks like when it has been tested past the breaking point - and what it produces on the other side.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48211706052759,"sku":"9798184583365","price":1213.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798184583365.webp?v=1788720695","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crushed-like-a-sugarcane-9798184583365","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}