Description
Across the French Antilles of Guadeloupe, three generations of Lougandor women carry their lives forward through memory, song, and hard-won love. Told in luminous, lyrical fragments, the novel traces Telumee’s family history—from the women who came before her, to the formidable presence of her grandmother Toussine, and the shaping force of her mother Victory—revealing how intimate bonds can also be a form of survival. As the past of slavery and its aftershocks presses into the present, the book explores spiritual inheritance, resilience, and the ways daughters learn what to keep, what to mourn, and what to transform. With its poetic cadence and richly textured storytelling, the novel stands as a powerful meditation on legacy, identity, and the bridge between what was taken and what endures.
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paperback
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published Jan 1, 2013
ISBN: 9781306910248
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
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