{"product_id":"what-storm-what-thunder-9781953534385","title":"What Storm, What Thunder","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, \u003cem\u003eWhat Storm, What Thunder\u003c\/em\u003e is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and--at the same time--an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChancy, Myriam Ja:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMyriam J. A. Chancy\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author most recently of the novel \u003cem\u003eVillage Weavers\u003c\/em\u003e (Tin House), a \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of April 2024 and winner of the 2025 Fiction OCM Bocas Award in Caribbean Literature. Her work has received multiple awards including an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Guyana Prize in Literature, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Prize, and the Isis Duarte Book Prize. Her previous novel, \u003cem\u003eWhat Storm, What Thunder\u003c\/em\u003e, was named a \"Best Book of 2021,\" by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, the Globe \u0026amp; Mail, shortlisted for the Caliba Golden Poppy Award \u0026amp; Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize \u0026amp; the OCM Bocas Prize. Her past novels include: \u003cem\u003eThe Loneliness of Angels\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Scorpion's Claw\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpirit of Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985563123986,"sku":"9781953534385","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7a721d7-1119-49e6-ad3e-7a8940db1477.jpg?v=1769539609","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-storm-what-thunder-9781953534385","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}