17230: Chancy: Re: Fwd: Novel Announcement

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Myriam Chancy <mchanc@email.smith.edu>
From: Maritza Stanchich <mizmaritza@yahoo.com>


See below the announcement for the release of Myriam's
Chancy's novel, Spirit of Haiti, which she read from
in the WOC-sponsored Caribbean Women Writers series
some semesters ago...and please pass the word to those
interested...

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Spirit of Haiti: A Novel by Myriam J. A. Chancy is now
available from Mango Publishing, a Caribbean Press
based in London, England. ISBN: 1 902294 19 X

>From the Book Jacket:

The lives of four witnesses of military-ruled Haiti
during the terror-filled years of the Duvalier regime
of the early 1990s intersect.  There is Leah, Ochun
who rises from the sea like a siren one morning off
the coast of Cap Haitien, clothes untouched by water,
blue stones wrapped around her neck, eyes blind to
light; Carmen, soon to be a mother, who returns to
Haiti from Canada as if to the call of the vodou;
Alexis who flees the island in search of a land
without strife; and Philippe, who walks the northern
hills alert to ancestral voices still haunting its
peaks and valleys, his gay identity exploited in
tourist trade as he struggles to maintain spiritual
dignity and a hold on hope, his body decaying from
AIDS.

Ultimately, Spirit of Haiti is a novel about
confronting the failings of the human heart, and the
triumph of memory over despair.

"Layered and lyrical, Spirit of Haiti is an extremely
timely and important work."
--Edwidge Danticat

Orders may be placed by phone: +44 208 480 7771, mail:
Mango Publishing, PO Box 13378, London, SE 277 OZN, or
by email: orders@mangoprint.com



Thank you, MC

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D.
Senior Editor, Meridians

Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Smith College
Associate Professor of English, ASU, Main

146 Elm St.
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063

"One must have chaos in one's self to give birth to a dancing star."

--Nietzsche