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![]() ![]() When after years of tolerating her first husband’s neglect she succumbs to an affair, she does more than hold readers’ sympathy she touches our hearts. ‘She says your future is all around you.’” Manette was standing by a calabash tree, watching. The old woman and Mimi began talking in the African tongue. She held a shell bowl in one hand – pigs’ knuckles and coconut, it looked like – and was eating it with her fingers. ![]() “I was surprised how small the old woman was. For readers unaware that she grew up on the Caribbean island of Martinique, this novel offers an intriguing perspective on her life and personality.įourteen-year-old Rose, worried over being still unmarried, consults a voodoo priestess. is the first book in a trilogy about Napoleon’s Empress, written in the form of a diary kept by Josephine – or Rose, as she was called before her life with Napoleon. The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. ![]()
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