Paulette A. Ramsay and Anne-María Bankay have made a truly invaluable contribution by translating this novel – making it available to English-speaking audiences in the Caribbean and beyond. Chiriboga deserves to be read more widely.

An important Afro-Latin American novelist, she addresses difficult and even controversial issues within a framework that poignantly illuminates how the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality affect black women’s lives.

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