My Love, My Love: Or the Peasant Girl

Rosa Guy's tropical retelling of "The Little Mermaid" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of D sir e, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class fami-ly feels that D sir e's skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy destined for power and wealth, D sir e proves that she is willing to give everything for love. This lovely reprint will break your heart.

Born in Trinidad, Rosa Guy has written 15 novels and has received the Coretta Scott King Award, and The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 09/01/2002
ISBN: 9781566891318
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.58h x 5.26w x 0.53d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2002 pg. 1253
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2002 pg. 49
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2002 pg. 28