Things I know about fairy tales / Praisesong for Port-au-Prince / Roxane Gay. Preface to the life of a bureaucrat / Jacques Roumain. A strange story / Ida Faubert. The enchanted second lieutenant / Jacques-Stephen Alexis. A white house with pink curtains in the downstairs windows / Jan J. Dominique. Oresca / Paulette Poujol Oriol. Children of heroes (excerpt) / Lyonel Trouillot. -- Part II: Seduced: Remember one day / Emmelie Prophète. Rêve Haitien / Ben Fountain. Heading south / Dany Laferrière. Three letters you will never read / Georges Anglade. The Port-au-Prince marriage special / Edwidge Danticat. True life / Michèe Voltaire Marcelin -- Part III: Losing my way: I just lost my way / Èzili Dantò. The mission / Mari-Hélène Laforest. Barbancourt blues (excerpt) / Nick Stone. Dame Marie / Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell. Surrender (excerpt) / Myriam J.A. Chancy. Things I know about fairy tales / Roxane Gay.
Summary:
A collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.
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