Title: Victoire
Description: Maryse Conde  has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles in the French Antilles--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Cookery, Fiction, Social life and customs, Women cooks, Guadeloupe fiction (French), Cooks, Narrative (Guadeloupe), Grandmothers, Fiction, general, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, family life, general, Caribbean area, fiction
Places: Guadeloupe, Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe), French West Indies, Lesser Antilles
People: Victoire Elodie Quidal