Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails, EstelleSarah Bulle
Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails, EstelleSarah Bulle
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Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails

Author: Estelle-Sarah Bulle, Julia Grawemeyer

Narrator: Imani Jade Powers, Samya De Meo, Jade Wheeler, William DeMeritt

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2022


Synopsis

The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadaloupe and its diaspora.

A young woman born in the suburbs of Paris—whose skin color and memories of occasional childhood visits alone connect her to her father’s native Guadeloupe—yearns to understand her lineage and her métis identity. Upon her request, her old aunt Antoine, the eccentric and indomitable family matriarch, unveils the history of the Ezechiel clan, and with it, that of the island over the course of the twentieth century.

In a spirited account, punctuated by interludes from other family members, Antoine tells her life story: a childhood spent deep in the countryside; an ill-fated romance between her upper-class mother and farmer father; the splendors and slums of the capital city, Pointe-à-Pitre; the eruption of modernity; the rifts in a deeply hierarchical society under colonial rule—and the reasons she left it all behind.

Through the unforgettable story of the Ezechiels, a richly textured account of the Guadeloupean diaspora emerges, spanning decades and crossing the Atlantic. With lush language and vivid storytelling, Estelle-Sarah Bulle's Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails examines the legacies of capitalism and colonialism, the loss of a beloved mother, what it means to be caught between worlds, and how we might reconcile past, present, and future.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

“ The sun sets between their house and town.” I would often hear this phrase when I was growing up.These words described someone living far from the city implying an out of the way and sometimes an out of touch existence.The title of the novel “ Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails” is a translation of a......more

Goodreads review by Yoi

A partir de la traduction d’un dicton créole, Cé la chyen ka japé pas ké – C’est là où les chiens aboient par la queue, Estelle-Sarah Bulle livre un roman riche de détails. On découvre une Guadeloupe transformée petit à petit par les décrets de la métropole et l’exil de sa population. La narration à......more

via my blog: [URL not allowed] 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬: 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 “𝐝é𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐲é 𝐳ô𝐭”- 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬. A young woman ‘with a mind full of questions’ about her father’......more