The Rainy Season: Haiti—Then and NowConsidered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination. |
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... crowd more ominous , lots of tafia and clairin about , " he said , naming the different kinds of raw Haitian rum . " Some of the lads wanted us to shout , ' Down with Duvalier , ' but we couldn't , quite . You know , after all those ...
... crowd more ominous , lots of tafia and clairin about , " he said , naming the different kinds of raw Haitian rum . " Some of the lads wanted us to shout , ' Down with Duvalier , ' but we couldn't , quite . You know , after all those ...
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... crowd . Their appearance was so abrupt I almost drove into them . About three hundred people , all dancing . In front of them , a squadron of soldiers , watching , awkward with their rifles at their sides . " It must be for Carnival ...
... crowd . Their appearance was so abrupt I almost drove into them . About three hundred people , all dancing . In front of them , a squadron of soldiers , watching , awkward with their rifles at their sides . " It must be for Carnival ...
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... crowd . Everyone was listening to music on the radio , it seemed as if every man in the crowd was carrying one . All tuned to the same station . A little boy came up to me and began dancing in front of me , swiveling his hips . The ...
... crowd . Everyone was listening to music on the radio , it seemed as if every man in the crowd was carrying one . All tuned to the same station . A little boy came up to me and began dancing in front of me , swiveling his hips . The ...
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... crowd . His face changed . Automatically , his hand went for his stick , and he plunged into the crowd after her . The people scattered more quickly for him than they had for her , and she hadn't gotten very far before he reached her ...
... crowd . His face changed . Automatically , his hand went for his stick , and he plunged into the crowd after her . The people scattered more quickly for him than they had for her , and she hadn't gotten very far before he reached her ...
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... under the fenders and into the. ly poor little Pony . It was a serviceable car , a Hyundai . It was white , and cheap to rent . But now the muck from the market where the fire le was right . The morning began with crowds everywhere.
... under the fenders and into the. ly poor little Pony . It was a serviceable car , a Hyundai . It was white , and cheap to rent . But now the muck from the market where the fire le was right . The morning began with crowds everywhere.
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