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: Richard\, an expat and weal thy 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 g irl\; Sonia and her business partner\, Dieudonné\;\, who are followe d by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emigran t musician who drives a taxi in Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the gh osts of her children in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accountan t forced to abandon the wife he loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haunts the m both\; and Ma Lou\, the old woman selling produce in the market who reme mbers them all.
\nBrilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, and deep ly haunting\, \;What Storm\, What Thunder \;is a singular\, stunni ng record\, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster\, and&mdas h\;at the same time&mdash\;an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of t he human spirit.
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