While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic mother and often-absent father, Sarina, a twelve-year-old white girl, longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard.
While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic mother and often-absent father, twelve-year-old Sarina longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard.
Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.
