Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

Ladivine

Marie NDiaye with Jordan Stump (Translator)

325 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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Clarisse Riviere's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper. Instead, weighed down by guilt, she pretends to be an orphan, visiting her mother in secret an...

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