Summary: Lime Prince is a green-eyed international supermodel of mixed Jamaican-Ethiopian heritage who lands the cover of Vogue, taking the New York fashion world by storm. But her sordid, violent past comes back to haunt her. Lime traces back to her painful coming of age in England and America while trying to break into modeling. As a child, Lime is abused and abandoned by her Ethiopian mother and forced to live with her Ethiopian grandparents, but finally rescued by her half-Jamaican father. In Melda Beaty‘s novel “Lime” .. she finds a modeling agent who siphons off her profits and is later coerced into a sex scandal by her ex-husband, a Jamaican trumpet player. Amidst the nonstop pressure of the fashion world and the painful memories of her upbringing, her one solace is her witty, no-nonsense best friend AJ. Yet AJ too becomes the victim of an atrocious act of violence What happens when the fantasies of beauty collide with the realities of domestic violence? More below the media player. Listen to Melda Beaty Download audio file (meldabeaty.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. The Indie Author Life [...] The post Sordid Past Haunts Supermodel appeared first on The Bookcast.
