For me, Sara has always been a very special child. I have often told Giselle how much she reminds me of my grandmother Aida. She has everything of her, her eyes of fire and tenderness, her hair in vines that give me so much trouble when I have to style it.

Pou mwen menm, Sara se yon timoun vreman very spesyal. Souvan m di Giselle konbyen li fèm sonje grann mwen, Aïda. Sara ak Aïda, 2 taste dlo. Je yo menm jan, ou ta di 2 boukan dife, 2 bwa dife, plen ak chalè lanmou, ak yon kalite voum cheve, wa di lyann, ki te banm kont traka lè pou m penyen l. Adje!

"Here, Creole in fact completes a slow movement of restitution that began a long time ago, radicalizes the subject by transforming the "dowry" into a feminine "inheritance", which no union will justify. This presence of Creole inscribed in the book comes to reveal in the French language of the story an original and secret rhythm that it hid all this time under its folds." —Stéphane Martelly, extract from the preface