close
Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel Audiobook, by Ishi Robinson Play Audiobook Sample

Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel Audiobook

Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel Audiobook, by Ishi Robinson Play Audiobook Sample
FlexPass™ Price: $19.95
$9.95 for new members!
(Includes UNLIMITED podcast listening)
  • Love your audiobook or we'll exchange it
  • No credits to manage, just big savings
  • Unlimited podcast listening
Add to Cart
$9.95/m - cancel anytime - 
learn more
OR
Regular Price: $27.99 Add to Cart
Read By: Deja Bowens Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063334908

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

51

Longest Chapter Length:

29:27 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

10:32 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

Other Audiobooks Written by Ishi Robinson: > View All...

Publisher Description

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake

One of the BBC and Zibby Mag's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

A 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 the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year’s time. All Pumkin has to do is pass her French entrance exam so she can attend school there. But when Pumkin’s grandmother dies, she’s left alone with her volatile mother, and as soon as her estranged father turns up—as lazy and conniving as ever—the household’s fortunes take a turn for the worse.

Pumkin must somehow find a way to raise the money for her French exam, so she can free herself from her household and reunite with her beloved aunt in France. In a moment of ingenuity, she turns her passion for baking into a true business. Making batches of sweet potato pudding, coconut drops and chocolate cakes, Pumkin develops a booming trade—but when her school and her mother find out what she’s up to, everything she’s worked so hard for may slip through her fingers. . . .

Sweetness in the Skin is a funny and heartbreaking story about a young girl figuring out who she is, what she is capable of—and where she truly belongs.

Download and start listening now!

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”

— Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author

Sweetness in the Skin Listener Reviews

Be the first to write a review about this audiobook!

About Ishi Robinson

Ishi Robinson is a Jamaican writer living in the East Berlin. Her first published work was a short story in the national newspaper when she was eleven years old. Since then, she's written opinion pieces for various publications in Jamaica, Canada, and Rome, and her short stories have appeared in Black Candies: The Eighties–a Journal of Literary Horror; Jersey Devil Press; Counter Service Mag; The Wild Word; and Visual Verse. Sweetness in the Skin is her first novel.