Edith then takes it on herself to ensure Fadila is educated and in the right manner.
She doesn’t get how Fadila must be undertaking the day to day activities of life without knowing how to read or write. The story is based in Paris and centered on two women – Edith and Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid (an immigrant from Morocco), who is completely illiterate.Įdith doesn’t understand how a person can be illiterate. Having said this, just as any other book that look deceptively simple, this one too has many layers to it, which will warm the cockles of your heart (so to say) as you get further into the narrative. “Bitter Almonds” to put it simply is a book where one woman teaches another how to read and write.
The idea that a book can do that is sufficient enough for me to keep reading, to keep turning those pages, as I pick one great book after another and that is the power and hold that books and reading have on me. It was not much but it mattered and reading “Bitter Almonds” by Laurence Cossé brought back all those memories all over again. I tried teaching someone once a long time ago, taught him to read a little and to me that remains closest to my heart. To us, that is the core of everything, which as I said often gets overlooked for whatever reason. Is it not? So much so that we – the ones who are educated almost take it for granted.
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