This is a short novel from 1992 by the Guadeloupan writer Maryse Conde, writing in French. I found this in a Little Free Library and wanted to read Conde because she’s won some recent big awards and she’s clearly in the consciousness for potential Nobel laureate. This novel is a retelling of the Tituba story, famous for the Salem Witch Trials, and of course famous for being one of the characters in The Crucible, more well known to Americans than the actual history of the […]