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The Lougawou's Daughter
Paperback
Series: Haiti After Midnight, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Anaëlle Dorvil gets the call that her mother is dead, she hasn't spoken to her in eight years. The line goes dead before she can decide what to feel.
She flies to Haiti for a funeral no one wants to touch. Her mother's body was found beneath the cedar trees at dawn, seven dogs circling it in perfect silence, deep lines scored into the earth around her - not footprints. Something had walked around Élodie Dorvil through the night. The village kept its distance. The priest turned his hands backward when he said the family name.
The rumors have followed this family for a long time. Lougawou. A word no one says directly. A word that means her mother was not only a woman.
Anaëlle doesn't believe in what the village believes. But as she moves through her mother's abandoned house, her missing nights, and the silence her grandmother has kept for decades, she begins to understand that some inheritances don't ask permission. They simply arrive - at midnight, in a familiar voice, calling your name through the dark.
The Lougawou's Daughter is a novel of secrets buried in the mountains of Haiti, the cost of silencing women, and what a daughter carries home when she thought she had left everything behind. Blending psychological suspense with the deep roots of Haitian folklore, Vladine Roche has written a story about fear, inheritance, and the terrifying possibility that the thing your family warned you about is already inside you.
For readers of Edwidge Danticat, Carmen Maria Machado, and Roxane Gay.
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