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About Maryse Conde
See more books from this AuthorBorn into a prominent black family whose parents believed they were the “most brilliant and the most intelligent people alive,” Condé (French Caribbean Literature/Columbia Univ.) is the last of eight children, and from childhood feels slighted by the “commonplace incidents” surrounding her birth,...
| Read Full Review of Tales from the Heart: True St...''because you're black,'' or how she watched with awe as her regal mother delivered a baby by pushing up her sleeves and shouting authoritatively in the Creole she had forbidden her children to use, Condé
Jan 13 2002 | Read Full Review of Tales from the Heart: True St...With a vivid memory for mood and details, Condé recalls the moral decline of her older brother, Sandrino, her torturous days in grade school and painful incidents stemming from her parents' insensitivity, such as firing the faithful family servant, Madonne, when she took a day off to care for her...
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