Tall Is Her Body

Readers of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man's journey to wholeness-both emotionally and physically-is shaped by the lands of his childhood and those of his ancestors, still reeling from the effects of colonialism and immigration.

Before the oracular gadèt-zafè came to warn his mother she would die, 6-year-old Fidel knew only the everyday mystery of the Guadeloupe around him. Th...