This book, Dandicat's first novel, is a powerful story of traditions, of love and sadness, of the ties that bind and the ties that break family. A powerful story of the women in one family, of how their lives as women, as Haitian-born women, as women sharing a powerful yet harmful family legacy. Overall, though, this is a story of love and healing, of finding acceptance, and of deciding which traditions can fade to dust and which can live on...
