A chronicle of a Polynesian family from the working-class neighborhoods of Tahiti, Breadfruit immerses us in the daily life of Materena, a mother of three children and a professional cleaning lady, with her “local” outspokenness and simple dreams. In this first part of the trilogy, the succession of stories, authentic and tenderly funny, is sewn with white thread... that of Materena’s wedding dress, who dreams of a ring on her finger and a marriage certificate framed on the wall. Her tāne, Pito, as a primary male, between beer and friends, doesn’t want to hear anything and resists. At the risk of being asked to return to his mother’s house at any moment... A truculent novel, delicious with truth and emotion, which describes the art of living in fenua and tahitian love in a lively and humorous style.
