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Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
βI wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up.β Frying Plantain presents its readers with a vibrant coming-of-age. Through the course of twelve chapters Zalika Reid-Benta captures a girl’s transition from childhood to adolescence into young adulthood. But this is far from a conventional Bildungsroman as within each chapter […]
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