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This was a really fantastic novel. Exploring the life and struggles of peasant communities in Haiti, and eloquently discussing the struggles of collectivization, mutual aid and family feuds.

I would definitely recommend this as a novel exploring the application of mutual aid and organizing outside the work place. It's very much a book of a time and place, but constructs an awesome story of roadblocks, feuds, and traditions coming in the way of a better life for all.

Pretty good sci-fi. Had me musing over ethnonationalism and the ways we are made by our environment and how utopian dreams themselves are crafted by our conditions.

Wow Just finished this little book and it was a pretty complicated and devastating read. Tracing the stories of over a dozen people whose lives, families, and friendships were shattered by the violence of Duvalier's Dictatorship in Haiti. Edwidge writes beautifully, drawing us into glimpses of lives lived after trauma and creating an amazing web of empathy and rage that unsettles as the story get more and more complex.