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The Bread the Devil Knead (Paperback)
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The Bread the Devil Knead (Paperback)
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Loot Price R236
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Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race
boutique manager who lives and works in Trinidad's capital city,
Port of Spain, she is feisty, fiercely independent and morally
ambiguous. Her secrets show only in her bruised skin and the
occasional glimpse into her shattered sense of self. When Alethea
witnesses a woman murdered by her jealous lover, her eyes are
opened to the lives of the women all around her: from her colleague
Tamika, who is engaged to marry an unfaithful man, and her
childhood best friend Jankie, the teenage bride of their PE
teacher, to her own mother, Marcia, who allowed her daughter to be
sexually abused in exchange for the family's financial and
emotional stability. In first-person Creole, Alethea brings us her
truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice. As her story
unfolds, we see her navigate a dangerous path between her abusive
partner Leo, a failed musician who wants to own her body and soul,
and the spineless boss she sleeps with only to preserve her
personal power. But when she is reunited with her adopted brother,
decades after they parted, memories and family secrets begin to
unlock and she starts to understand the person she has become.
Alethea's next step is to decide on the woman she wants to be.
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