11/At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti\, Port-au-Prin ce. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster: Richard\, an expat and w ealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter\; the daughter\, An ne\, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NG O\; a small-time drug trafficker\, Leopold\, who pines for a beautiful cal l girl\; Sonia and her business partner\, Dieudonné\;\, who are foll owed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emig rant musician who drives a taxi in Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accoun tant forced to abandon the wife he loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haunts them both\; and Ma Lou\, the old woman selling produce in the market who r emembers them all.
\nBrilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, and d eeply haunting\, \;What Storm\, What Thunder \;is a singular\, stu nning record\, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster\, and a t the same time an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human sp irit.
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