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Frying Plantain

`This is the book I`ve been waiting to read my entire life on the diasporic Caribbean experience. The writing is sharp, intelligent and everything you`d expect from a talented Jamaican writer. I honestly love this book` Symeon Brown`Frying Plantain is every bit as delicious as the title suggests` Candice Carty-Williams, author of QueenieIn her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle – of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a `true` Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother`s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too `faas` or too `quiet` or too `bold` or too `soft`. Set in Toronto`s `Little Jamaica`, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker.

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