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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

A Cuban Girl's Guide To Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey

This is another pick from Reese Witherspoon's Young Adult recommendations, and it has all the multi cultural mixings that happen in others in the group of books that she picks out. Lila is a young woman, almost 18 and recently graduated from high school. Her future doesn't hold college but rather running the family's traditional Cuban bakery in Miami. She is right on track to that success when her grandmother dies unexpectedly, and her long time boyfriend dumps her. She spins out of control and her family decides that the best solution is to send her away to a family friend in a small English town. Okay, that part seems like a stretch--more running from problems than solving them, but that is the story. There she meets a boy, Orion , who is also headed for running his family's tea shop. They form a friendship while she is expanding her baking horizons to blend in a bit of where she is with a bit of where she is from. It has a lot of classic elements of a romantic comedy but with a Cuban girl teaching her new found friends things about her culture through food.

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