Skin

Skin is a coming-of-age collection by a New York writer Racquel Goodison. It deals with Sophia a young girl and her life in the West Indies and the United States. Sophia is determined as child teen and adult to individuate herself from who her family and her society believe that she is or should be based on ethnicity class gender and sexuality. In these stories Goodison paints a complex portrait of beauty discovery self-love and self-acceptance. And once Sophia crosses water and land literally to finally cross her own internal landscape figuratively we all stop running for cover.