In this intoxicating tale of love and madness, mothers and daughters, folkloric wisdom and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe, aged yet unbowed Telumee tells her life story, along with that of the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from,[...]
In a tale of West Indian legend, magic, folk-loric wisdom and reverence for the elderly or deceased, great-grandmother of Minerve, the elderly Telumee, tells the story of her difficult life after recounting the equally difficult experiences of her female ancestors.[...]