{"product_id":"sweet-undoings-9781646052158","title":"Sweet Undoings","description":"\u003cb\u003eYanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a \"high-pitched sweetness\", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Corossol Restaurant-Bar, when the broken, rich voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrune's father, Judge Berthier, was assassinated, guilty of maintaining integrity in a city where everything is bought. Six months after this disappearance, Brune wholly refuses to come to terms with what happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this unpunished crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside Brune and Pierre, Francis becomes acquainted with myriad other voices of Port-au-Prince, including Ézèegrave;chiel, a poet desperate to escape his miserable neighborhood; Waner, a diligent pacifist; and Ronny the American, at ease in Haiti as in a second homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing its power from the bowels of the city, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the richness of the lives within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending school and university in France, she returned to Haiti, where she taught literature at the university in Port-au-Prince and worked for the Ministry of Culture. Her first novel was published in 2000, and she won the prestigious Prix Femina in 2014 and a French Voices Award in 2015 for Moonbath. An English translation of \u003ci\u003eMoonbath\u003c\/i\u003e (tr. Emily Gogolak) was published by Deep Vellum in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKaiama L. Glover is a writer, translator, and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, as well as founding co-editor of \u003ci\u003earchipelagos\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the translator of \u003ci\u003eReady to Burst\u003c\/i\u003e by Frankétienne (Archipelago, 2014), \u003ci\u003eDance on the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e by Marie Vieux Chauvet (Archipelago, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eHadriana in All My Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e by René Depestre (Akashic Books, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660918264082,"sku":"9781646052158","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32f655ec-f5b6-49f9-b77b-f987dfc0ab76.jpg?v=1733479506","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-undoings-9781646052158","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}