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What started out as a blog for book reviews and a gathering of friends in a book club, has grown into a one-stop shop for book related solutions. We are now a bookstore, a book café, a book box service and a book club.
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The Greenhouse Mall

Suite 12, Ground Floor, West Wing

Ngong Rd, Nairobi

Soma Nami Books

Coricom House, 33 Ngara Rd, Ngara 

Nairobi, Kenya

Sweetness in the Skin

Ishi Robinson

A Jamaican girl is determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime.

Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family’s social standing); her aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin); and her mother Paulette (who’s rarely home). When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity and promises to send for her niece in one year’s time. All Pumkin has to do is pass her French entrance exam so she can attend school there. But when Pumkin’s grandmother dies, she’s left alone with her volatile mother, and as soon as her estranged father turns up—as lazy and conniving as ever—the household’s fortunes take a turn for the worse.

Pumkin must somehow find a way to raise the money for her French exam. In a moment of ingenuity she turns her passion for baking into a true business. Making batches of sweet potato pudding, coconut drops and chocolate cakes, Pumkin develops a booming trade—but when her school and her mother find out what she’s up to, everything she’s worked so hard for may slip through her fingers.

Soma Nasi, won’t you?

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You know when we take a break it's because we are working on something grand! We paused our book boxes so we could rebrand and make it a value add product, incorporating all your feedback. 

Re-introducing the Soma Nami Book Box - revamped, rebranded and so much value for you our dear clients.  

We have curated our current Holiday Book box as the perfect gift for yourself and your loved ones.  For all your special occasions.

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