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ID: 700739
Title: Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel
Author: Ishi Robinson
Narrator: Deja Bowens
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:58:03
Language: English
Release date: 04-23-24
Publisher: HarperAvenue
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life
Summary:
A delicious debut novel about a young Jamaican girl who tries to bake her way to a better life in France.
Pumkin Patterson lives in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother, who wants to improve the familys social standing; her Aunt Sophie, who wants to take Pumkin with her to a new life in Paris; and her mother, Paulette, who wants to keep her at home out of spite.
When Aunt Sophie decides to move to France for work, she promises to send for her niece in one years time. All Pumkin has to do is pass her French entrance exam so she can attend school there. But when Pumkins grandmother diesthe households fortunes take a turn for the worse.
Somehow, Pumkin must find a way to raise the money to take her French exam. In a moment of ingenuity, she decides to turn her passion for baking into a true business. Selling batches of sweet-potato pudding, coconut drops and chocolate cakes, Pumkin begins raising the money she needs. But when her mother finds out that Pumkin wants to leave, she does all she can to sabotage her daughters plans.
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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