Frying Plantain av Zalika Reid-Benta

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<p>''<b>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'' </b>Symeon Brown<br><br>''<i>Frying Plantain</i><b> is every bit as delicious as the title suggests''</b> Candice Carty-Williams, author of <i>Queenie</i><br><br>In 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.<br><br>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''. <br><br>Set in Toronto''s ''Little Jamaica'', Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold o