From the acclaimed author of Krik? Krak!.
Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival--from one of the most important voices of her generation--is an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory..
Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.
But Amabelle\'s world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers.
She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry.
It is 1937 and Amabelle D sir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel.
But the story does not end here: it begins.
Instead, terror unfolds them.
She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. 1937: On the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, a maid to the young wife of an army colonel falls in love with sugarcane cutter Sebastien.
From the acclaimed author of Krik? Krak!
