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Born Under the Wrong Sun

Born Under the Wrong Sun

Author(s): Michèle Callard

Location(s): Guadeloupe, Haiti

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Present time

When French drummer, Marceau, disappears to his native island of Guadeloupe, his band ask Jessie, his girlfriend, to look for him. Although Jessie scours the island, he is nowhere to be found and her search reveals a very different Marceau to the man she knew in Oxford. Who is he really and what is his connection with Haiti?

After a terrible earthquake in Haiti, Mari-jo and her brother escape to French Guadeloupe where they rebuild their lives and Wait for Mackenzie, her husband. When they fall into the clutches of a local gangster, the know that if Mackenzie cannot join them, they will lose everything.
With its human context, cultural details and effortless evocation of place, Born Under the wrong Sun is very much a novel of our times.

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