Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Cond? vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism.

These gemlike vignettes capture the spirit of Cond?'s fiction: haunting, powerful, poignant, and leavened with a streak of humor.