Lucky Girl

A privileged young Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family in this rich and engaging debut. "Told through the eyes of a young Kenyan woman who moves to America, LUCKY GIRL is at times tender, at times funny, at times uncomfortably frank. A fresh look at racism, privilege, and the challenges of coming of age and falling in love between two cultures." - CHARMAINE WILKERSON, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake Since I was a child I had been searching for a place where I could just be me. It wasn't at home in Kenya with Mother. Then I came to a foreign land, which I loved, but I was still a stranger. I was different, even to the people with whom I shared a skin color and hair texture. I worried I would never find the place where I belonged. Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a life of privilege in