Zalika Reid-Benta

Frying Plantain (eBook, ePUB)

Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'An unforgettable debut' Paul Beatty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

'Incisive and sharp' Refinery29

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.

'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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dialogue
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780349701523
• Artikelnr.: 56889660

Autorenporträt

Zalika Benta-Reid is a Toronto-based writer who received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University in 2014 and is an alumnus of the 2017 Banff Writing Studio. Frying Plantain is her debut and she is currently working on a young-adult fantasy novel drawing inspiration from Jamaican folklore and Akan spirituality.