"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\, Dieudonň\, 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. Brilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, and deeply haunting\, \;What \;Storm\, \;What \;Thunder \; is a singular\, stunning record\, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster\, and-at the same time-an unforgettable testimony to the tenac ity of the human spirit"&mdash\;From Catalog.
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