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Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou

Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou
  • Author(s): Michael Matza
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set amid Haiti’s worst security crisis in a century – foreshadowing the assassination of President Jovenel Moise – Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou blends history, culture, religion and superstition in a suspenseful story about...

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
  • Author(s): Laura Rose Wagner
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2010

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...

Island on the Edge of the World

Island on the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Deborah Rodriguez
  • Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic...

The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain
  • Author(s): Fiona Cane
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2001

It’s 2001, and amidst the political turmoil in Haiti, three disparate lives collide: Yolande, an impoverished farmer desperately looking for the sister her abusive husband has sold into slavery; Maddy, an eager British journalist on her first overseas assignment,...

The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint

The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint
  • Author(s): Keith Madsen
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s, present-day

A narrative that weaves together the history of Haiti with a present day story featuring the descendants of the legendary Haitian freedom fighter Toussaint and their struggle to realize their ancestor’s dream.

An Untamed State

An Untamed State
  • Author(s): Roxane Gay
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...

Because We Are

Because We Are
  • Author(s): Ted Oswald
  • Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When a mother and her infant are murdered on the outskirts of Cité Soleil, Haiti’s most infamous slum, two unexpected detectives emerge: Libète, a brash and headstrong girl of ten, and her brilliant but impoverished friend Jak. Though made...

Bonjour Blanc

Bonjour Blanc
  • Author(s): Ian Thomson
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. In the land of Voodoo, zombies and the Tontons Macoute. In this classic account, history jostles with adventure, high comedy is touched with danger; and Haiti glows like a magic...

Haiti Noir

Haiti Noir
  • Author(s): Edwidge Danticat
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Haiti had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter...

Mr Clarinet

Mr Clarinet
  • Author(s): Nick Stone
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

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