A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Book - 2020
Seventeen-year-old Lila Reyes, furious when her parents send her to the English countryside to recover from grief and heartbreak, unexpectedly falls in love with a teashop clerk--and England, itself.
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Publisher:
New York : Atheneum, [2020]
Copyright Date:
©2020
ISBN:
9781534471245
1534471243
9781534471252
1534471251
1534471243
9781534471252
1534471251
Call Number:
TEEN FIC NAM
Characteristics:
308 pages ; 22 cm
Alternative Title:
Cuban girl's guide to tea & tomorrow
Bib Control Number:
1145336
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From Library Staff
Lila Reyes, 17, had her whole life after graduation planned out—stay in her native Miami, take over her family’s bakery, get an apartment with her best friend, and keep dating her boyfriend—but after “the trifecta,” a series of massive losses, she’s sent to a medieval town in Hampshire, England, ... Read More »
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Add a CommentSurprised to have learned so much about Cuban cuisine, as well as Cuban American culture. I think the culture was made prominent because the main character, a talented young baker and cook, compared her Miami culture to that of a smaller English city. Her observations described the two cultures and the ways she found to blend the strengths of both through her baking. (Read on Axis360.)
A good book to end the year on.