Susan Jane Gilman is the author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dres, Kiss My Tiara, and Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven. She has written commentary for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. magazine, among others, and her fiction and essays have received several literary awards. Though she has lived most recently in Geneva, Switzerland, and Washington, D.C., she remains, eternally, a child of New York.
Marie Daulne’s music reflects the story of her life. Her father, a Belgium colonialist, was killed by child rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shortly after impregnating her…