In this brief but powerful collection of stories, Haitians navigate their beleaguered homeland or their adopted country as immigrants, refugees, and undocumented border crossers pining for their loved ones left ‘kneeling in a bed of sand and bones’ in one of the world’s poorest nations. Add to their ranks Roxane Gay, a bright and shining star. Its better scribes, among them Edwidge Danticat, Franketienne, Madison Smartt Bell, Lyonel Trouillot, Marie Vieux Chavet, have produced some of the best literature in the world. Haiti has long been the most interesting country in the Americas. These are powerful stories written with verve.
Ayiti, fifteen stories about Haiti, its people, and Diaspora, serve as a compelling and arresting window into the Haitian experience.
