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Tall Is Her Body
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2025
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We Were Not Kings
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The Twelfth House
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2026
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The Story Behind WE WERE NOT KINGS
For my fortieth birthday, I took a thirty-day long overdue trip home to Guadeloupe and Dominica. I had not been back to the islands for several years, and that trip could not have been any more spectacular. The ability to reconnect with old friends, see family and experience the most beautiful of Mother Nature’s gems, is never something I could take for granted.
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"Robert de la Chevotière’s “Tall is Her Body” is an epic novel that spans multiple decades and illuminates the complexities of life and families in the West Indies. The story follows our protagonist, Fidel, through his childhood and adulthood while ex"
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"This has an amazing concept. My complaint (and it may be reader issue) the jumping time-lines. I really want to try again and physically read it. I think the audio was just throwing me. The author did an amazing job of pulling me in to the actual sto"
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"This book mixes culture and stories through the ages of those hurt and trafficked from home and the fantasy it encompasses to a great work of story!!"
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"The Twelfth House is powerfully gritty; moving in a way I've not felt in some time. Rather than making the brutality and injustice of slavery the primary focus of the story, where the reader may grow desensitized out of self preservation, Chevotiere "
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| This is a much needed read on the influence of nationalism on truth and justice. I listened to the audiobook read by the author and it was fantastic. Coates is an intellectual and his observations are supported by well documented research. Solid Read ...more | |
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| This was a different read for me but it was still wonderful, particularly as I hosted the other for the English version book launch. The level of research done here in second to none and it shows so well in the creative aspects of the novel. What I g ...more | |
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| I finished this a few months ago and I really enjoyed it. The opening was riveting and the voice kept me at full attention. Looking at Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of a newcomer/immigrant was a perspective I had never considered, especially kno ...more | |
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“If we needed to say words to confess, deaf and dumb people would all go to hell.”
― Tall Is Her Body
― Tall Is Her Body
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