My Love, My Love - by Rosa Guy (Paperback)

About the Book

Guy's tropical retelling of "The Little Mermaid" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class family feels that Desiree's skin is too dark for a boy destined for power and wealth, Desiree proves that she is willing to give everything for love.

Book Synopsis

Rosa Guy is a fine writer and she continually gives us new issues to contemplate.--Maya Angelou

Review Quotes

"It's a testament to both of these heroines—so lovingly created, so achingly human, so believably true in their yearnings—that we want both of them to attain that ultimate mundane dream that made them so relatable in the first place."—Los Angeles Review of Books