Books by Gisele Pineau

This autobiographical novel of alienation and exile explores the alienation of a girl and her grandmother contending with life between two identities. As a young woman of colour and Caribbean ancestry - even though Paris-born - the girl is not accepted as not French enough.

Talks about the two cataclysms that devastated Eliette's life: the cyclone of 1928, when she was eight years old, and the Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows of her life in the town of Savane Mulet. This is a novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe.