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Straight unshackles historical fiction: Novel tells tale of slavery, racial mixing
2006
Overview
[Moinette]'s mother, Marie-Therese, is an African, kidnapped and sold into slavery; her father a nameless white sugar broker who paid a visit to Azure, the plantation where Marie-Therese serves as laundress. Moinette's mother had been a \"gift\" for the night to her master's guest; in the aftermath, she herself was left with another sort of gift, the daughter she loves and lives for, \"a bright hardship\" she will struggle to protect from a similar fate. This is the world that Moinette, 14 years old at the start of the novel, grows into. [Susan Straight] could just as well have called her novel Women's Ways of Knowing, the title of a popular modern book on women's psychology, as she traces the development of Moinette's awareness of her circumstances and the wisdom she gains from a series of female mentors. A slave whose household Moinette joins at a second plantation, where she is set to work harvesting cane, advises the silent, traumatized girl to \"make a new place here or keep a old place in your head. Only two choice.\" Eventually, Moinette chooses to nourish a clan of \"memory people\" who have helped her on her way, some of them white.
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Postmedia Network Inc
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