Three strong women (Quercus Publishing)

In this new novel, the first żeby a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful.§This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned żeby her estranged, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out żeby her husband