Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019

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Synopsis
'An unforgettable debut' Paul Beatty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout'Effortless, vivid, funny, sad' Janice Galloway, author of Clara and All Made Up'Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed)' Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story 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 Little Jamaica, Toronto's Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig's head in her great aunt's freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother's house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents.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. In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.
Copyright:
2019

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780349701523
Related ISBNs:
9780349701516, 9780349701509
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Copyrighted By:
Zalika Reid-Benta
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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