"At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, a s markets and businesses begin to close for the evening\, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti\, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the char acters affected by the disaster--Richard\, an expat and wealthy water-bott ling executive with a secret daughter\; the daughter\, Anne\, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO\; a small-time drug trafficker\, Leopold\, who pines for a beautiful call girl\; Sonia an d her business partner\, DieudonneÌ\, who are followed by a man they be lieve is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emigrant musician who dri ves a taxi in Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her childr en in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accountant forced to abando n the wife he loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haunts them both\; and Ma Lo u\, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Ar tfully weaving together these lives\, witness is given to the desolation w reaked by nature and by man."
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