Sweet undoings /

Sweet undoings /

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Author / Creator:	Lahens, Yanick, author.
Uniform title:	Douces déroutes. English
Edition:	First US edition.
Imprint:	Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022. ©2022
Description:	169 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Port-au-Prince (Haiti) -- Fiction. Haiti -- Port-au-Prince. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Novels. Detective and mystery fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13016039

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Other authors / contributors:	Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- translator.
ISBN:	9781646052158 1646052153 9781646052417
Notes:	Translated from the French.
Summary:	"Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings. In 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 Korosol Resto-Bar, when the broken and deep voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone. Brune'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 has happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this still-unpunished crime as well. Nourishing its power from the bowels of the city, Sweet Undoings moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the intimacy of the lives within"--

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Call Number:	PQ3949.2.L295S94 2022
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