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My
Love, My Love
or
The Peasant Girl
Novel
by Rosa Guy
Désirée,
is the beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself body
and soul to a handsome, urban "prince" whose
life she has saved from an accident near her village.
Unfortunately, his family feels that Désirée's
skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy who
will be king, and Désirée proves that
she is willing to give everything, even her young life,
for the purest love she has ever known.
Adapted
into the highly successful Broadway musical Once on
This Island, (nominated for eight Tony Awards), Rosa
Guy's tropical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's
fable "The Little Mermaid" is a gorgeous,
tragic love story. With soaring lyricism, Rosa Guy turns
this heartbreaking story into a subtle meditation on
race and class. Appropriate for all ages, this lovely,
timeless tale, now back in print after nearly twenty
years, is guaranteed to touch every reader's soul.
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