A review by liketheday
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale by Maryse Condé

4.0

Basically what happens in this book is that there's a missionary called Celanire who shows up at a village in Africa conveniently soon (practically immediately after) the death of the man she was meant to work for, so she gets his job of running a home for "half-castes" — basically biracial children whose parent(s) don't want that transgression running around underfoot.
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