Trading secrets
By: by Paule Constant ; translated by Betsy Wing ; with an introduction by Margot Miller.
Contributors: Wing, Betsy.
Series: European women writers series
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Description: "This book is a fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is constantly reimagined. A darkly comic novel about four women aging less-than-gracefully, Trading Secrets takes us to an academic conference in Kansas where, in an encounter between Aurore, a French woman, and her American counterpart, Gloria, the differences between their two cultures become sharply apparent.

The result is a bitingly funny portrait of painfully complex, psychologically damaged individuals, all of whom have been, in some sense, "colonized." The novel also offers an incisive picture of a French posture toward things American, from race relations to feminism to academia. The book is a mirror, both in how its characters reflect one another and in what it shows us of ourselves and our world."--BOOK JACKET.