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Haitian Book Club: Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferriere




Haitian Book Club: Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferriere



aroma of coffeeWelcome to yet another edition of the Haitian Book Club.

Today’s selection is Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferierre. This is one of those childhood chronicle books. It recounts the idyllic life of a little boy during the summer he turned ten. He is being raised by his loving, no-nonsense grandmother Da in a town named Petit Goave. We get not only a glimpse in his mischievous little mind, but a great overview of life in the countryside in Haiti. Da is easily the most popular grandma in town. She has an interpretation for just about every dream. And more importantly, she makes the best coffee in the world. It’s the scent of this expertly-brewed coffee that tickle the unnamed narrator’s nostrils and make the summer of 1963 eventful for him.

This book makes much of the role that grandmothers, especially Haitian grandmas, play in the lives of children. Da is obsessed with keeping a clean house, and nurtures her little grandson back to health when he has his frequent high fevers.

Aroma of Coffee is truly a stupendous little book. May you be reminded of your wonderful days in elementary school, when like the narrator of Aroma of Coffee, your greatest worry was whether chicken nuggets wouldn’t be served in the cafeteria.

To read of the other selections of the Haitian Book Club, CLICK HERE.



K St. Fort
K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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