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Soul Kiss

by Shay Youngblood · 1997

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This "tender coming-of-age story" (Essence) follows Mariah Santos as she moves from an idyllic childhood of hot-plate food and blues on the radio in the company of her mother, to a stormy adolescence with her fierce, forbidding spinster aunts, to a slow, painful journey of self-discovery as she seeks out the father she never knew. A richly textured tale of sorrow, sensuality, and triumph, Soul Kiss marks the debut of an outstanding new literary voice.

Genre
LGBTcoming of agelesbianhistorical fiction
Themes
African AmericanLGBT
Setting
1990sGeorgia
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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