At M.A., Mothers Anonymous, we talk frankly about motherhood. Not about “how extraordinary it is to become a mother”! Far from the talk of girlfriends, the clichés of magazines and the stories of grandmothers in the subway, we recount personal experiences, anxieties, failures… And this integral edition collects both Mères Anonymes and A la recherche du nouveau père, where Philippe, a new and slightly disregarded arrival at M.A., reflects on his status as a ‘new dad’.
Vingt-décembre chroniques de l’abolition
In 1841, 12-year-old Edmond, a young slave of Mr. Ferreol Sellier-Beaumont, a landowner on Reunion Island, discovered the process of artificial fertilization of vanilla. The technical procedure he invented, simple, fast, and efficient, was a worldwide revolution in the cultivation of vanilla, and was adopted almost everywhere in the world. Even though it made the island extremely wealthy, Edmond did not make any profit from it. Though he suffers a fall from grace and spends time in prison, in the end he triumphs against all odds, becoming a popular figure, a man of roguish charm, joyful, and eternal.
