26784: Du Tuyau: (Comment on a book) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: viandemoulue@aol.com

Don't worry folks. With my English, I could never write beautiful and accuracy
comments like this below. I browse internet on the weekend and I find interest
in couple lines by big name "The Rainy Season" writer (Amy Wilentz) on a book
by somebody weird name for Haitian named Kathie Klarreich. (P.S. I no know if
Ms. or Mrs. Kathy if she Haitian.) Short and cute comment and so, me too, I go
buy Kathie Klarreich book right now after posting this below. You can also
check comment on website like this one:

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-survey4dec04,0,606108.story?
coll=cl-home-utility

This is below, Amy Wilentz' comment in LA Times. Short and cute comment so I
buy book too later today. Read below for comment please:

........
Amy Wilentz
"Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti" by Kathie
Klarreich (Nation Books) is a memoir filled with humor, personality and
cultural richness. Klarreich, an American journalist with a keen eye for
foibles across national lines, married a Haitian musician during a time of
trouble in Haiti and had his baby during a coup d'état. When else to have a
proper, patriotic Haitian child? She chronicles with deep affection and
understanding the troubles in Haiti before, during and after the rise of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and does so in the great humanistic, border-
breaking tradition of Isak Dinesen and Graham Greene. Her portrait of the
complicated Aristide is precise and dead-on. Despite the "Vodou" in the
subtitle, this book transcends the usual foreign tropes about Haiti's evil and
exoticism and plunges through to our common humanity.