and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship--until a deathbed revelation ripples through...... more

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to...... more

American Book Award Winner Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist A NPR, Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Chicago...... more

. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an...... more

unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between opposing forces. In this first book-length study in English devoted...... more

repercussions on a struggling nation. As the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate...... more

In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process...... more

from Haiti--a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies--the Dominican Republic, and...... more

Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultural complexity...... more

, and remarkable because it does so with such insight, sensitivity and poetry. Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian writer and...... more

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out wome... more