At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, as 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 chara cters affected by the disaster--Richard\, an expat and wealthy water-bottl ing executive with a secret daughter\; the daughter\, Anne\, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO\; a small-time d rug trafficker\, Leopold\, who pines for a beautiful call girl\; Sonia and her business partner\, DieudonneÌ\, who are followed by a man they bel ieve is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emigrant musician who driv es a taxi in Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her childre n in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accountant 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 remembers them all. Art fully weaving together these lives\, witness is given to the desolation wr eaked by nature and by man. ~Provided by the Publisher
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