Tierra mezclada

In Mixed Earth, Maryse Condé once again demonstrates why she is one of the most powerful storytellers of our time. In these tales —sensual, fierce, profoundly human— we follow women and men cast to the margins, wandering between islands, continents, and memories, trying to understand who they are and where they come from. A teacher finds fleeting happiness by taking in and healing Solo, a young outcast considered cursed by the village; an engineer caught between passion and justice risks his future to protect Ayissé; a young woman discovers the true face of her father, seductive and fragile; Létitia, a voracious consumer of life, learns to choose between fleeting passion and the hand that sustains her; a doctor pieces together the story of a dead son and a lineage marked by madness and marginalization; a traveler takes in a specter that smells of rotten earth; a man climbs Mount Shasta to confront the voice that calls to him.