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• The Year I Flew Away

  Arnold, Marie

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  Juvenile Fiction. After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.

• Ayiti

  Gay, Roxane

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  Stories. A powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay.

• Haiti my country

  Rogé

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  Juvenile Nonfiction. Features poems inspired by the Haitian landscape written by students from Camp Perrin, Haiti.

• American Street

  Zoboi, Ibi

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  Teen Fiction. Fabiola Toussaint and her mother are finally leaving Haiti for the good life in the U.S. After leaving Port-au-Prince, Fabiola's mother is detained by immigration officials. Now Fabiola has to navigate life in loud, gritty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings

  Latour, Francie

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  Picture Book. A story of heart, home and identity, connecting a Haitian American girl to generations of family love and lore through her beloved Auntie Luce’s paintings.

• Three Leaves, Three Roots

  Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story

  Georges, Danielle Legros,

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  Poems. The late, beloved Danielle Legros George, a Haitian-born, Boston-based poet explores the personal and political stories of the Haitians who were part of Congo's 1960s decolonization movement

• The World is Moving Around Me

  A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

  Laferriere, Dany

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  Memoir. An eyewitness account of the terrifying earthquake in Haiti in 2010, and its tragic aftermath. Laferrière reveals the shock, rage, and grief experienced by those around him, the acts of heroism he witnesses, and his own sense of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Haiti Glass

  Moïse, Lenelle, 1980-

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  Poetry. This is prose and verse that moves deftly between girlhood memories of growing up as a Haitian immigrant in the suburbs of Boston, to bearing witness to brutality and catastrophe, to intellectual, playful explorations of pop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Roving Tree

  A Novel

  Augustave, Elsie

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  Fiction. Told from beyond the grave and underscored by the spiritual wisdom of Haitian griots, The Roving Tree explores separation and loss, rootlessness, the impact of class privilege and color consciousness, and the search for cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mouths Don't Speak

  Ulysse, Katia D.

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  Fiction. After the massive earthquake that devastated the country in 2010, Jacqueline Florestant, who left Haiti years ago, is riddled with worry about her parents. Already dealing with a gauntlet of emotions as the mother of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• God Loves Haiti

  A Novel

  Dimitry Elias Léger

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  Fiction. A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Janjak and Freda Go to the Iron Market

  Turnbull, Elizabeth

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  Picture Book. In this first book of the bilingual Janjak and Freda series, cousins Janjak and Freda go with their godmother on an exciting adventure to Haiti's famous Iron Market. While there, they make many new friends, taste new fruits,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

  Moulite, Maika • Moulite, Maritza

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  Teen Fiction. After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Haiti Noir

  Various Authors

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  Stories. A haunting collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.

• Breath, Eyes, Memory

  Danticat, Edwidge

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  Fiction. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Soup

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  Picture Book. Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup -- Freedom Soup. Together,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love, Anger, Madness

  A Haitian Triptych

  Vieux-Chauvet, Marie

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  Fiction. Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet's stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Apologies That Never Came

  Pierre Alex Jeanty

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  Poetry. From words that never left your mouth to feelings you held on to, these words explore an unspoken space in heartbreak and pain, providing solace to the wounded soul.

• Hadriana in All My Dreams

  A Novel

  Depestre, René

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  Fiction. On the morning of her wedding to a Haitian man from a prominent family, Hadriana drinks a potion and collapses on the alter. She turns into a zombie and so her wedding is now her funeral.

• Moonbath

  Lahens, Yanick

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  Fiction. The award-winning saga of a peasant family living in a small Haitian village, told through four generations of voices, recounting through stories of tradition and superstition, voodoo and the new gods, romance and violence, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation