Sugar Paper is Kiki Gallo Cipo’s journey as she goes from A to Z, moving toward her inescapable destiny. She starts out a naïve girly girl and becomes known as “The Legend” and “The Most Standup Lady in the state of New Jersey.” Both titles are given to her by the godfather of the largest and most powerful mob family in New Jersey.
This book is not for the faint of heart as it is graphic where it needs to be and gets downright raunchy when necessary.
By the end of the book, the godfather gives Kiki a valuable present. Then Uncle fulfills his lifelong promise as he tells her what she has the right to know, that is, nothing has ever happened by chance in her entire life. He reveals who each of the eight main characters really are as no one is whom she thought they were and ties up every loose end.
At this point, you should be left with only one question: How the heck did a woman ever write this novel in the first place?
Only Kiki has the answer to that question.
Fasten your seat belt, this ride is about to get bumpy.
Tootsie Barron was born in North Jersey, Jersey City, and she now calls South Jersey (just outside of “The Queen,” Atlantic City) her home. She has two grown-up children and is widowed. Since her beloved papillon, Wiseguy, crossed over the rainbow bridge, she lives in a world of mostly silence and her words. When she needs a break from them, she closes her eyes and remembers everything good. “As always, I wish you all that Heaven allows.”