At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, 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 liv es of the characters affected by the disaster&mdash\;Richard\, an expat an d wealthy water-bottling 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 and her business partner\, Dieudonné\;\, who are f ollowed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an e migrant 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 acc ountant forced to abandon the wife he loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haun ts them both\; and Ma Lou\, the old woman selling produce in the market wh o remembers them all.
\nBrilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, an d deeply haunting\, \;What Storm\, What Thunder \;is a singular\, stunning record\, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster\, an d&mdash\;at the same time&mdash\;an unforgettable testimony to the tenacit y of the human spirit.
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