The Novel Views Book Club will me et in Meeting Room A\, located on the lower level of the library. \;
\n"At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, as markets and bu sinesses begin to close for the evening\, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude s hakes the capital of Haiti\, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J . A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard\, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive w ith a secret daughter\; the daughter\, Anne\, an architect who drafts affo rdable housing structures for a global NGO\; a small-time drug trafficker\ , Leopold\, who pines for a beautiful call girl\; Sonia and her business p artner\, Dieudonné\;\, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi i n Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accountant forced to abandon the wife h e loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haunts them both\; and Ma Lou\, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weavi ng together these lives\, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by na ture and by man. Brilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, and deeply haun ting\, What Storm\, What Thunder is a singular\, stunning record\, a recko ning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster\, and--at the same time--an u nforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit." -- MCPL Catal ogue.
\nPrint copies may be available at the Germantown Library afte r November 6\, 2024.
\nAvailable on Overdrive/Libby as an eBook: https://mcplmd.overdrive .com/media/6434758 \;and as an Audio ebook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/6838672< /a> \;
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