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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gay, Roxane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York : Grove Press, [2018]
Edition:First Grove Atlantic edition.
Subjects:
Port-au-Prince (Haiti) > Fiction.
Haitians > Fiction.
FICTION > Short Stories (single author)
FICTION > Literary.
Short stories, American.
Table of Contents:
  • Motherfuckers
  • About my Father's accent
  • Voodoo child
  • There is no "E" in Zombi, which means there can be no you or we
  • Sweet on the tongue
  • Cheap, fast, filling
  • In the manner of water or light
  • Lacrimosa
  • The harder they come
  • All things being relative
  • Gracias Nicaragua y Lo Sentimos
  • The Dirt We Do Not Eat
  • What You Need to Know About a Haitian Woman
  • Of Ghosts and Shadows
  • A Cool, Dry Place.