Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel

Sweetness in the Skin: A NovelA winning debut novel about a Jamaican girl 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 familys social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (whos rarely home). When Sophie is offered

as former slaves move to assert their rights

Because Mahogany is clever

and so many others and see their everyday struggles

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she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household

Taking inspiration from the Black Power Movement

Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1601624901

who stood up to Jamaica’s oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice

when rebuffed

there are only two ways out: graduate or die

Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment