Victoire

Description:

Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles in the French Antilles--Dust jacket.

subjects: Cookery,  Fiction,  Social life and customs,  Women cooks,  Guadeloupe fiction (French),  Cooks,  Narrative (Guadeloupe),  Grandmothers,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, family life, general,  Caribbean area, fiction

People: Victoire Elodie Quidal

Places: Guadeloupe,  Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe),  French West Indies,  Lesser Antilles