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Author: Cyrielle Tamby
Genres: Literary Fiction
Carol, Désirée and Sabrina are three sisters carrying the same inheritance in three different directions. Where Carol has stayed and hardened, and Sabrina has found a fragile kind of peace, Désirée has spent her adult life in motion, from Berlin to Brooklyn to Jamaica to the South of France, running from a family silence she has never named and can't outrun.
The novel follows Désirée as an unexpected pregnancy forces her back toward Carol, and toward a spiritual inheritance she has always felt in her body before she has understood it in her mind, rooted in dance, touch and ancestral memory rather than in anything abstract. At the centre of it is Viola, a presence whose full meaning is only gradually revealed, and whose pull on Désirée forces a reckoning that fire alone cannot resolve.
DÉSIRÉE is a novel about sisterhood as inheritance, about the body as the place where diaspora and memory are actually kept, and about what it costs to finally stop moving.
For readers of: Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory.
Author: Cyrielle Tamby
Genres: Literary Fiction
Carol, Désirée and Sabrina are three sisters carrying the same inheritance in three different directions. Where Carol has stayed and hardened, and Sabrina has found a fragile kind of peace, Désirée has spent her adult life in motion, from Berlin to Brooklyn to Jamaica to the South of France, running from a family silence she has never named and can't outrun.
The novel follows Désirée as an unexpected pregnancy forces her back toward Carol, and toward a spiritual inheritance she has always felt in her body before she has understood it in her mind, rooted in dance, touch and ancestral memory rather than in anything abstract. At the centre of it is Viola, a presence whose full meaning is only gradually revealed, and whose pull on Désirée forces a reckoning that fire alone cannot resolve.
DÉSIRÉE is a novel about sisterhood as inheritance, about the body as the place where diaspora and memory are actually kept, and about what it costs to finally stop moving.
For readers of: Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory.