pickI left my heart in Haiti at the end of my volunteer term in 1997. This guy was 10 years old that year, and now he's studying at Oxford, getting his MA in Public Administration. The earthquake in 2010 was horrible, AND it provided some people the opportunity to step into leadership positions.
This book is a broad analysis of the int'l process begun to fund and coordinate relief and reconstruction. What has happened since it was written, I wonder?
Spiderfelt The fact that I was unsatisfied with the book, is a reflection of the time it took me to read it, not a failing of the author. I want to see how many of the goals set out in the book as the partners imagined building back better have begun. Listening to the reports of destruction from Hurricane Matthew this week, I wonder how far the progress will be set back. 8y
BookishFeminist ❤️❤️ love this 8y
Spiderfelt Do you have any recommendations @BookishFeminist for books that follow up where this book ended? In 2011, they had only cleared 20% of the debris from collapsed buildings. What happened between 2011-2016? Where are they in the process now? 8y
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BookishFeminist @Spiderfelt I might! Most of that reading I've done on Haiti is stuff written before 2009 since that's when I was studying it academically- but I might be able to email a professor and see if she has anything :) Roxane Gay and Edwidge Danticat may have some stuff on it since they are from there but I haven't looked into it recently. I'm curious now! 8y
Spiderfelt Thanks for your offer @bookishfeminist. I will do some more research on my own, and I do work in a library. Edwige Danticat was a contributor to the appendix of this book with a short personal essay. It looks like she also wrote a young adult book about a child trapped in the rubble. 8y
BookishFeminist @Spiderfelt Yea I have that on my shelf but hadn't connected the dots. I need to read that. There must be other stuff by now but it might be published in French without a translation. Do you read French at all?? 8y
BookishFeminist This is the YA book![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Untwine 8y
UntwineSpiderfelt That looks great @bookishfeminist but this is the book I foundEight Days 8y
Eight DaysSpiderfelt I have read in French, and in theory I can read in French, but have not recently. 8y
BookishFeminist Oh gotcha! I didn't know she'd written a kids book too. The protagonist of Untwine is in a hospital so I thought it may have been due to hurricane injuries. Eight Days looks good. I'll keep that in mind about French if I run across anything. 8y
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