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Spirit of Haiti
Paperback
Series: Suny Series, Afro-Latinx Futures
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781438495125
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 1 2023
Pages: 265
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.
Gold Winner of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBTQ+ Fiction category
Vivid and poignant, Spirit of Haiti follows the intersecting lives of four young witnesses to military-ruled Haiti during the early 1990s. Léah, an apparition, rises from the sea like a siren one morning off the coast of Cap Haitien, clothes untouched by water, blue stones wrapped around her neck, eyes blind to light. Soon to be a mother, Carmen returns to Haiti from Canada as if responding to the call of the vodou spirits. Alexis flees the island in search of a land without strife. Finally, there is Philippe, who walks the northern hills alert to ancestral voices still haunting its peaks and valleys. Doing what he must to get by in the tourist trade and now weakened by illness, he struggles to maintain spiritual dignity and a hold on hope. First published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize in the Caribbean and Canada region, Spirit of Haiti is a novel about confronting the failings of the human heart and the triumph of memory over despair.
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