L'Américaine | Catherine Bardon

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The American Woman

Catherine Bardon

Collection : Littérature française

Release date : 14/03/2019

As a backdrop to Ruth’s story, Catherine Bardon offers an in-depth exploration
of 1960s America – music and all! – and of the cultural revolution
taking place there. Deeply attached to the themes of historic disruptions,
exile and searching for one’s roots, with The American Woman, Bardon
continues the stunning saga inaugurated with The Uprooted.

September 1961: Ruth lets her native land, the Dominican Republic,
disappear in the wake of the ship she has boarded. Destination: New York,
where she’s enrolled at the University and has already arranged an internship
at the Times. Watch out, New York, here she comes! She knows in
her heart that she is destined... September 1961: Ruth lets her native land, the Dominican Republic,
disappear in the wake of the ship she has boarded. Destination: New York,
where she’s enrolled at the University and has already arranged an internship
at the Times. Watch out, New York, here she comes! She knows in
her heart that she is destined to become a journalist, just as her father,
Wilhelm, had been.
Housed by her uncle and aunt, Ruth soon turns into a real New Yorker,
her life filled with rock music, friendship and love. With the politics of her
time, too: Kennedy’s assassination, the Civil Rights March on Washington,
demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and more. But as the years go
by, Ruth begins to wonder who she really is: a blond-haired, blue-eyed
Dominican? An adopted American? Why should she erase her Austrian
roots? Would she feel more at home in Israel, where her godmother would
welcome her? How can she find her roots, when her parents had to flee
and entirely reinvent their lives?

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