Fiction Web-sites Maps A sampling of FICTION set in Haiti Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux, et al. Divine Horsemen : The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren, et al. The Faces of the Gods : Voodoo and Roman Catholicism in Haiti by Leslie G. Desmangles Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham Edwidge Danticat. Breath, Eyes, Memory Twelve year old Sophie Caco lives in Haiti with her aunt Atie who has raised her from birth. Her mother lives in New York City and has been sending money home but now has sent a ticket for Sophie to go live with her. Through this story we learn about the women of Haiti and we visit this island with its sugar fields and road side stands. Danticat draws on her own experience. The prose is gentle, the story is not. This book deserves to be read at least twice. Temple, Frances. Taste of salt : a story of modern Haiti. New York : Orchard Books, c1992. Guy, Rosa. The sun, the sea, a touch of the wind New York : Dutton, c1995. Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed. Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Book Description As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo | |
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