Baking Cakes in Kigali

By Gaile Parkin

Subjects: Grandparent and child, Fiction, general, Large type books, Manners and customs, Tanzanians, Fiction, Bakers, Social life and customs, Africa, fiction, Bakers and bakeries, Baking

Description: "Angel Tungaraza has recently moved to Rwanda from her native Tanzania. With her husband Pius and the five orphaned children of their late son and daughter, she is hardly short of things to do. But she still finds time to pursue her hobby and her passion: her small but increasingly successful business, baking individually-designed cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours and their friends ... As her customers tell her their stories, she comes to realise how much each of them has to mourn as well as how much they have to celebrate. And, finally, she comes to accept how much that is true of her too ..."--Publisher description.