I must say, Charmaine wrote a lovely story about breaking generational curses, the beauty and history within cooking, racism, and self life reflection. Even though the pace of this book is arguably slow, I rather enjoyed it as it took it's time to build many loveable characters and empathy for their journeys. The twists even landed harder for me because the author choose to take a slower route to build up the tension. 

This book will you inspire you to seek out knowledge about your family. It showed, in a plethora of examples through the generations, how history repeats itself when you're unaware of it or haven't learned from it. 

The hard hitting issues, as far as racism, colorism, featurism, and xenophobia was painted and explained brilliantly. Charmaine did a phenomenal job educating the reader on these topics, specially in the loosely based Jamaican culture. She walked us into the world of the toxic thinking and beliefs some people, mainly of the older generation, possessed.

Even the sexual assault was handled with care as the author didn't go into detail and refrained from giving the abuser too much acknowledgement. 

 

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in food culture, Jamaican/Island culture and lifestyle, family secrets, and/or civil rights. You will not be disappointed.