![]() ![]() Marie turns thirty-one and Cham leaves her for another woman, ostensibly one who is fertile and will bear him children. ![]() She sees children all over the island, many "born without anyone even wanting them, while I'm praying, begging". Marie is head over heels in love with Cham who is "more handsome every day, more unreal every day in that he belongs to me". At 26, she meets Cham, also a nurse and black. Marie, a white nurse working in a Mayotte hospital is 24 years old when the narrative begins. Poverty runs rampant as do petty and violent crimes. Many of the illegals are basically children or teenagers who live in gangs or on the street. Kwassa-kwassas, a type of ferry, are continually bringing refugees and immigrants to Mayotte, and the island holds about 20,000 citizens and 20,000 illegals. It consists of two islands, Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre. ![]() Mayotte, the setting of this novel, is a "departement" of France. Mayotte, in the Comoros islands in the Mozambique Channel, is one of them. There are places in this world that are mostly unheard of. ![]()
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