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016			_a(AMICUS)000045301248
020			_a9781487005344
050	0	0	_aPR9199.4.R4574 _bA6 2019
082	1		_aFIC REI _2
100	1		_aReid-Benta, Zalika
245	1	0	_aFrying plantain : _bstories _c/ Zalika Reid-Benta
260			_aNew York _b: House of Anansi Press Inc. _c, 2019
300			_a258 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aKara 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 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.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aLonglisted for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize
650		4	_aMothers and daughters _v--Fiction
650		4	_aGrandmothers _x-Fiction
650		4	_aYoung women _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAuthors, Canadian
651		4	_aToronto (Ont.) _x-Fiction
651		4	_aJamaica _x-Fiction
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