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The Ndola Muto Salon

The Ndola Muto Salon

Ekotto, Frieda

Hardcover

Series: Griot Project Book

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 1684486270
ISBN13: 9781684486274
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 158
Language: English

At the Ndola Muto Salon Douala, Cameroon, women slip behind closed doors to seek pleasure, refuge, and one another. When young Violette begins work there as a courtesan for women to support her family, she enters a world her mother cannot accept, where desire moves quietly but powerfully. Part sanctuary, part hidden house of pleasure, the salon becomes a mirror of empowerment, longing, and possibility beyond the restrictions of Cameroonian society. Within its walls, Violette encounters a constellation of women who shape her awakening: Lady Budu, the formidable owner; Caroline, who first opens her to joy; and the enigmatic Lady with Sexy Toes, who urges her to imagine a life of her own making. As these lives intertwine in this evocative novel, the salon reveals how tenderness between women can become an act of resistance, defying patriarchy, class, and convention in small but profound revolutions.

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