Mouths Don't Speak: A Novel

A Haitian immigrant in the US tries to stay emotionally afloat after the 2010 Haitian earthquake rips her family apart. Honorable Mention in the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Long List! "A captivating portrait of a woman plagued with worry about family and homeland, this beautifully written novel recalls Toni Morrison's Paradise."

—Library Journal "Powerful . . . As Ulysse explores grief, she moves beyond her protagonist to consider the murky motivations and emotions of other characters. This is a harrowing, thoughtful dive into the aftermath of national and personal tragedies filtered through diasporic life."

—Publishers Weekly "Ulysse gives readers a riveting story of a woman who is trying to make sense of a homescape that, if not wholly disappeared, is irrevocably altered."

—BuzzFeed "A beautiful reminder that the obstacles we face are not who we are; rather, they make us who we are."

—Tulsa Book Review No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions of others homeless. Three thousand miles away, Jacqueline Florestant mourns the presumed death of her parents, while her husband, a former US Marine and combat veteran, cares for their three-year-old daughter as he fights his own battles with acute PTSD. Horrified and guilt-ridden, Jacqueline returns to Haiti in search of the proverbial "closure." Unfortunately, the Haiti she left as a child twenty-five years earlier has disappeared. Her quest turns into a tornado of deception, desperation, and more death. So Jacqueline holds tightly to her daughter—the only one who must not die.

© 2018 Akashic Books (E-bog): 9781617756047

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E-bog: 2. januar 2018