{"product_id":"god-loves-haiti-a-novel-isbn-9780062348159","title":"God Loves Haiti: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflecting the chaos of disaster and its aftermath, \u003cem\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e switches between time periods and locations, yet always moves closer to solving the driving mystery at its center: Will the artist Natasha Robert reunite with her one true love, the injured Alain Destiné, and live happily ever after? Warm and constantly surprising, told in the incandescent style of José Saramago and Roberto Bolaño, and reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez’s hauntingly beautiful \u003cem\u003eLove in The Time of Cholera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e is an homage to a lost time and city, and the people who embody it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Léger deftly sketches his country’s postcolonial struggles as well as its faith, resilience, and promise.”—The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn thirty-five seconds, more than 200,000 people on the island of Haiti are killed and 1.3 million are left homeless. An earthquake has struck, ravaging a land that is plagued by poverty and poor infrastructure. Yet the amazing characters in \u003cem\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e are never simply victims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the novel are the connected but divergent fates of its President, his wife, and her lover. The world has fallen down around them, laying bare remorse, pain, isolation, and unalloyed grief now devastatingly realized, and irrevocably altering all their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnchoring this poignant and constantly surprising story is an affectionate portrait of Haiti, in all its complexity—its proud past as the first nation established by a successful slave revolt, its entangled politics with France and the United States, and its efforts to rise from the ruins to build anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A luminous debut. . . . Léger writes beautifully and with an immense humanity. A standout novel.”—Junot Díaz\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“In his first novel, the Haitian-born journalist Dimitry Elias Léger chronicles with great passion the catastrophic 2010 earthquake. . . . .Mr. Léger conveys horrific scenes of trauma, as well as the political posturing, in the quake’s aftermath.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Léger, a native of Haiti, writes with fabulist exuberance and an eye for the absurd.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With empathy and wit, Léger captures the intricacies of a country that is at once beautiful and tortured….There is no doubt that God Loves Haiti will leave readers wanting more from this talented author.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eM\u0026amp;V Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e] shows undeniable strength and a powerful message about creating something new out of such devastation. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Léger ]deftly sketches his country’s postcolonial struggles as well as its faith, resilience and promise….his Haiti-in-crisis, richly seen and unforgettable, is all too real.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Léger’s use of imagery when describing the aftermath of the earthquake is remarkable and unparalleled; it offers a refreshing perspective. \u003ci\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e is a detailed and gripping account of the tragic events that occurred, infused with a story of romance, courage and change.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfroPunk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Port-au-Prince earthquake of 2010 may seem like an odd setting for a romantic comedy, but then Haiti really is an amazing place!  . . . with talents capable of anything. Dimitry Elias Léger has brought it off, with a smile, a tear, and a peppery dash of satire as a lagniappe.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadison Smartt Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fully mature novel in scope and perspective, as rich in ideas as in humanity. Funny, street-smart, and keenly observed, \u003ci\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Léger as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible new voices.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdwidge Danticat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Port-au-Prince earthquake of 2010 may seem like an odd setting for a romantic comedy, but then Haiti really is an amazing place! Dimitry Elias Léger has brought it off, with a smile, a tear, and a peppery dash of satire as a lagniappe.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadison Smartt Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A luminous debut . . . Léger writes beautifully and with an immense humanity. . . . He renders [Haiti] in all of its stupendous beautiful tortured complexity. A stand-out novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunot Diaz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A work of fiction that combines breathless narrative movement with memorable writing and unabashed Big Ideas. [An] impressive debut novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The heat, the horror, the taste of ashes:  Reading this vivid debut novel about the Port-au-Prince earthquake of 2010-and the risky love triangle that survives it-is jolting and exhilarating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“So powerful as to be mesmerizing. I don’t think I’ve seen the Haitian earthquake of 2010 represented with such compassion and insight. One of those books that leave you wishing the author could produce a tome every month.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At a time when novels, even Scandinavian detective stories, seem strictly divided into literature (worthy, well-written, indifferently plotted) and entertainment (fun, plot-driven, indifferently written), it is a pleasure to come upon a work of fiction that combines breathless narrative movement with memorable writing and unabashed Big Ideas. \u003ci\u003eGod Loves Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e, the impressive debut novel of Dimitry Elias Leger plunges right in to tackle, with impetuous energy and unflagging wit, such ponderous themes as love, sin, redemption (with a subtext of Dante’s Inferno), as the author unfolds the suspenseful tale of a romantic triangle in the wake of the 2010 Port au Prince earthquake.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888252154085,"sku":"NP9780062348159","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062348159.jpg?v=1730228634","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/god-loves-haiti-a-novel-isbn-9780062348159","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}