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Haitian Book Club, The Children of Injustice by Ruth Auguste The Children of Injustice by Ruth Auguste tackles something that is often hushed in Haitian culture and is not discussed even…
Lyonel Trouillot’s novel about two slum-dwelling children Marièla and Colin, two children who murder their abusive father is curiously titled Children of Heroes, and that is the least intriguing thing about the work. Colin and Mariéla Pamphile are the precocious…
Haitian Book Club, Alicia Maldonado: A Mother Lost by Ardain Isma Haitians and Cubans have been linked to one another throughout history. During the Haitian Revolution, French citizens fled with their…
Haitian Book Club, Streets of the Lost Steps by Lyonel Trouillot The reader meets three narrators in Lyonel Trouillot’s book Streets of the Lost Steps (University of Nebraska Press, $20). One…
The 1940s-1960s are often regarded by some who lived in that period, as the Golden Age of Haiti. And in reading Stars Over Haiti, Anthony Hattenbach’s adventure-filled account of life in Haiti at that time, it leaves no doubt in…
With her perky smile and well-carved face, Michèle Jessica Fièvre might easily be taken for a model on the streets of Miami, but no, she writes novels. Fièvre, who was born in the 1980s in Haiti, carved a little niche…
Chapo Ba…in which we give a brief tribute to someone who has had a significant impact on Haitian culture. Today’s Chapo Ba goes out to Justin Lhérisson. Lherisson’s name will always go down in Haitian history for writing “La Dessalinelienne”,…
Renowned and acclaimed fiction writer Julia Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is probably the last person one would think would devote an entire semi-memoir to Haiti. But maybe not. Alvarez’s roots are in the…
It is often said that every techie has a hidden creative side. Is there any truth to this? Computer Science graduate Giscard Nazon certainly leads one to believe there is some truthfulness in that saying. An information technology professional for…
Edwidge Danticat has an obsession with the sea, from The Children of the Sea, a harrowing story from her short story collection Krik? Krak! to her latest work Claire of the Sea Light. The book centers on Claire Limyè Lanmè,…