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Feb 14, 2018Vilka rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The story of Haiti is presented as two stories told in parallel: one of a modern-day boy living in the slums, essentially a slave to poverty and gang violence until an earthquake traps him under rubble; the other of Toussaint l'Ouverture, the man who led the slave revolt that made Haiti free. Both characters consider their own struggles for freedom, strangely linked to each other by the power of a vodou ritual that gives each fleeting glimpses of the other's life. The book is a kind of combination historical and social issues novel, and an interesting look into a place that most North Americans probably don't know much about. Though there is a lot of violence and misery (be warned), in the end there is an undercurrent of hope.