What drives Zarite forward is her unshakable belief in her own right - and the right of her children - to be free. She is also helped along by a few caring men, including Gambo, a warrior under Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Pere Antoine, a saintly priest. 2/5: I know that colony is a purgatory of fatal illnesses and rebellious Negroes. She is assisted in her quest by a series of resilient women, including Tante Rose, a seer and medicine woman who knows more about cures and illnesses than European-trained doctors Violette, a courtesan with her eye on future and Adele, the black (and therefore unacknowledged) wife of a white man.
She begins a long and hard-fought journey to freedom through the jungles of Haiti, the neighborhoods of Cuba, and the households of New Orleans. When the slave rebellions in Haiti begin, it is up to her to save her white master/rapist, her children, and the white child of the master. Zarite is the offspring of a Guinean woman and the white sailor who raped her saved from murder by her own mother, Zarite is sold off to a household in Saint Domingue. Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions.
The enthralling, blood-chilling, and heart-breaking story of Zarite connects the links between the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the revolt of the Haitian slaves led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the sale of Louisiana to the United States, and the rising influence of the Abolition movement. By Isabel Allende (Harper 457 pages 26.99) For 28 years, Isabel Allende has given us books that fling their arms open, gather up history and offer it back to us in a wide embrace. Read Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel by Allende, Isabel, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780063049642). Allende powerfully evokes the historical events that rocked the late eighteenth century, sending tsunami-sized waves of change around the world.
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