Ishi Robinson

Sweetness in the Skin (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by BBC and Zibby Mag

A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime.

Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home).

When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year's time. All Pumkin has to do is pass her French entrance exam so she can attend school there. But when Pumkin's grandmother dies, she's left alone with her volatile mother, and as soon as her estranged father turns upas lazy and conniving as everthe household's fortunes take a turn for the worse.

Pumkin must somehow find a way to raise the money for her French exam, so she can free herself from her household and reunite with her beloved aunt in France. In a moment of ingenuity, she turns her passion for baking into a true business. Making batches of sweet potato pudding, coconut drops and chocolate cakes, Pumkin develops a booming tradebut when her school and her mother find out what she's up to, everything she's worked so hard for may slip through her fingers. . . .

Sweetness in the Skin is a funny and heartbreaking story about a young girl figuring out who she is, what she is capable ofand where she truly belongs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063334885
• Artikelnr.: 68470592

Autorenporträt

Ishi Robinson was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She has lived in Bern, Toronto, Rome, and London, and now lives in Berlin with her Czech husband. She has published short stories in several online publications and one anthology. Sweetness in the Skin is her first novel.

Rezensionen

'Ishi Robinson's debut serves up a taste of Jamaica that will have you craving coconut drops, gizzada and sweet potato pudding . . . this engaging coming-of-age tale shows a challenging side of Jamaican life through the eyes of an appealing protagonist' The Times