Literature came late in Gabriella Garbeau's life. The founder of the Racines bookstore, who today is immersed every day in works that change the world, has long associated reading with a task. "The books that were imposed by the school curriculum did not touch me. As a little black girl, I rarely recognized myself in them."

Everything changes when a teacher suggests to her class, at the beginning of secondary school, to read The Diary of Anne Frank (1945), in which a young German Jewish girl recounts her family's exile to the Netherlands and her forced two-year stay in a tiny company annex in Amsterdam.

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