“One side of my family had owned another, and that that was as bleak and as straightforward as it got,” Andrea Stuart, author of Sugar in the Blood (RH/Knopf), tells Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday.

Stuart is descended from a Barbados slave owner and an unknown slave, a reality she wasn’t able to accept until four years into research for her book.

As a result of the show, the book is rising on Amazon’s sales rankings and is currently at #174. Library holds are in line with orders.

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