A review by sweetrosegirl76
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

3.0

3.5? Idk if I'll round or not. For someone who doesn't like contemporary books I read a lot of them. So this one was definitely relatable from a Latina perspective like on how our parents lie to us and with hold information, how close families are and community is. How we rally for each other. How we end up hurting each other because we're trying to protect each other. Penelope's dad is definitely representative of how a lot of Latino fathers are. I'm very grateful that my parents broke as many generational curses as they did. My parents didn't withhold affection and didn't really hide a lot from us at least to the extent that most Brown families do. Most Brown families don't talk about anything, I'm thankful that mine wasn't like that. That's why it wasn't as relatible to me personally because my because my parents were very intentional on raising this differently, but they're not perfect so I def still related to some concepts like getting kicked out, getting reasons why decisions are made way after the fact etc.

This was a great book to showed the importance of community support.