Ayiti /
Clever and haunting by turns, Ayiti explores the Haitian diaspora experience. A married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river whil...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
Grove Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Grove Atlantic edition. |
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| Summary: | Clever and haunting by turns, Ayiti explores the Haitian diaspora experience. A married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Wise, fanciful and daring, Ayiti is the book that put Roxane Gay on the map and now, with two previously uncollected stories, confirms her singular vision. |
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| Item Description: | "First published by Artistically Declined Press: October 2011." |
| Physical Description: | 173 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780802128263 0802128262 9781472154170 1472154177 |