Port au Prince, Haiti. A young man is missing, his two sisters search for him. This is the story of one day and of three young people in a city where life is cheap and death too familiar.
One of the greatest living Haitian writers, Yanick Lahens's short stories convey the authenticity of her people's tragic fight for survival within the scope of our shared human experience. In this fir
The Haiti of Yanick Lahens's path-breaking short fiction is a country demanding our compassion as it reveals to us its horrors. For decades among the forefront of Haitian writers, Lahens has embarked
?A novel of violent beauty.” ? Le MondeThe award-winning saga of a peasant family living in a small Haitian village, recounting through stories of tradition and superstition, voodoo, romance, and viol
