Beautifully written commentary on identity and inequality

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	• Un Papillon Dans LA Cite Gisele Pineau Sepia Editions, 2000 - 124 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Beautifully written commentary on identity and inequality

I read this book for a French class in college; it's tough going if you're not fluent, but I had a great teacher who guided us through the analysis. The story is about a girl from Guadeloupe who leaves her feisty, beloved grandmother to live in France with her estranged mother and stepfather. She moves to the Projects, and starts elementary school, where she excels but faces prejudice. All the while, she longs for Guadeloupe and feels isolated in France, until she meets a boy who I think is Algerian, and whose experience in some ways connects with her own.
Overall, the novel is rather sad, but it's beautifully written, the dialogue is great, and it's good practice for students of French.

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Un Papillon Dans La Cit?

This is a very good book for people who speak french but want to keep up their skill by reading french, as I do. I found it very absorbing - very touching account of a young girl taken from her childhood home on a Pacific island to live the very different life of the project housing in the great city of Paris.
Beautifully written without too many of the slang words and phrases that most French people are familiar with, but are incompomprehensible to others.