Sweetness in the SkinA 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 family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home). When Sophie is offered

building and keeping healthy friendships take work

brought North by an enslaved ancestor

spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature

An unforgettable invitation to treat our lives as the sacred things they are--and a call to embrace the love

She flees the media circus and her judgmental grandmother by shutting herself off from the world in a spare room of the motel where she works

journalism

Money is security

First days aren't easy for a girl with a name like Ashanti

While the attraction is there

entertainment

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is