La deseada

What happens when you have to grow up in the midst of pain and lack of identity? How can you live in the mystery and concern of not having a story to tell? In La Deseada Maryse Condé answers these questions through the story of three generations of island women united by the force of blood, abuse and violence. This novel is also the journey that Marie-Noëlle begins from Guadeloupe to France, passing through the USA, to unite the pieces of the puzzle of her individuality, leaving aside the versions of her mother Reynalda, her grandmother Nina and her Nurse Ranélise. With unwanted maternity wards and men of doubtful morality, La Deseada responds to a particular cry: only from the invention of her own language does she begin to live.