Just as the sentence takes us into an unexpected world, the rest of the story takes some surprising turns as the young Sugar Mecklin, Nordan's protagonist through his early work, learns more about the nature of
chickens than he bargains for and more about his momma and daddy than he ever expected to.
It would take some
bargain hunting to find better deals in this tropical town; when searching through the weekly coupons from Publix supermarket we uncovered a whole
chicken from $ 1.29 per pound as compared to Grocery Taxi's $ 1.94 per pound, but a pound of green beans at Publix was only $ 0.10 cheaper
than the Grocery Taxi price ($ 1.59 versus the Publix sale price of $ 1.49).