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I understand why people like this book but I bailed with 100 pages to go. The repetition was more than I could handle. I thought the book started strong but then I realized that I was all too eager to put the book down and not pick it back up.

I found the cover of a play I read recently in the book on Black artists I've just finished 😁
Anacaona is an important historical figure: she was an indigenous Taino ruler at the time of the Spanish invasion in what is now #Haiti and the #DominicanRepublic. Hence the art ant literature about her.

In this thoughtful memoir, the author recounts her childhood as the daughter of Baptist missionaries in Haiti. Her hot-tempered father, an agronomist, applied all his missionary zeal to reforestation efforts with little regard for the effects on his family. The author uses her parents' letters, church documentation and interviews to offer a clear-eyed look at the complicated legacy and shortcomings of missionary aid, however well-intentioned.

Loved this like I love all of Isabel Allende

February 2025 Book #5

This is a collection of short stories, powerful ones in terms of topics. First book I read by this author and looking forward to read more books by her. However, my experience with short story collections is that I like some more that the others and this is not an exception. Also, some stories I saw them more narrative, informative than a short story per se. It was the same experience I had with In A Dream Hoyse ⬇️

Very good! Bought this on a trip to Crystal Bridges.

Edwidge Danticat‘s writing is clear and succinct. She is a master of the essay form. This book covers a wide range of topics, both personal and global. One of the later essays in the book is about Haiti and its political climate and it sounded eerily familiar. Definitely a book to add to your library. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reading this book about the same time i read Gay‘s Hunger, it is obvious it is partly autobiographical. Gay and the protagonist suffered much the same trauma and the recovery was/is a journey of a lifetime. They have similar internal dialogue, the disturbed response to people trying to help them, the revulsion of being touched. Gay‘s family was from Haiti, so there‘s that connection, too. There‘s the inability to forgive and the desire to know ⬇️

Next up, a poetry collection by a Canadian author of Haitian descent, using zombie folklore as a metaphor for slavery, being Black in a White-dominated world, immigration narratives, generational trauma, and healing, the book's title being the traditional remedy for zombiïsm.
🇭🇹 #Haiti 🇨🇦 #Canada

I‘m starting this book today, my second book for #authorabook this month. @Soubhiville