A review by nevertheless_she_reads
Cora's Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown

slow-paced

3.0

I enjoy books written in epistolary format. Letters between Cora and Langston Hughes were tucked between chapters, which really added to the story. I enjoyed Cora's emotional strength and desire to follow her passions. Without giving it away, there are a few twists to Cora's story I couldn't have predicted, one of which involves her relationship to Langston. The other involving the white woman. I loved the feminist elements, where Cora stays true to herself and goes to extreme measures to protect the other women in her life. Cora's Kitchen highlights the inequities of women based on skin color and class, but Cora's resilience shines through on every page.