When Nobody Asked Why

Some questions take forty years to ask.

Claudette, Eliane and Nadine grew up in the same Mauritian kitchen. Sixty years later, they remember it three different ways.

Claudette, the talker, kept a ledger of every slight. Nadine, who never stopped moving, crossed a border under another woman's name and survived nine months she has never fully described. Eliane, the quiet one, built a life from education, detention and divorce, and kept her own silences. Now each of them is in her sixties, livin...