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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... smile. Well, he should. He's making forty dollars a month, a small fortune. Now he'll be able to feed his wife and his three-year-old son, if he can find food to buy and if he can supplement the money with little jobs here and there ...
... smile. Well, he should. He's making forty dollars a month, a small fortune. Now he'll be able to feed his wife and his three-year-old son, if he can find food to buy and if he can supplement the money with little jobs here and there ...
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... smiled at each other , nodding in her direction . Heidi was new to photography , and Haiti was a good place to photograph . She'd been in Guatemala already , with her boyfriend . " I love the houses in Port - au - Prince , " Heidi was ...
... smiled at each other , nodding in her direction . Heidi was new to photography , and Haiti was a good place to photograph . She'd been in Guatemala already , with her boyfriend . " I love the houses in Port - au - Prince , " Heidi was ...
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... smiled . Another round of shots , another round of drinks at the photographers ' table . Then what sounded like ... smiled . He waved at me with his pen . I wasn't used to gunfire . I smiled.
... smiled . Another round of shots , another round of drinks at the photographers ' table . Then what sounded like ... smiled . He waved at me with his pen . I wasn't used to gunfire . I smiled.
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... smiled back and would have raised my glass to him in a trite gesture , but I could tell that my hand would tremble . Now his pen was beckoning . I nodded . " Who are you , then ? " he asked me as I sat down at his table . Just beyond ...
... smiled back and would have raised my glass to him in a trite gesture , but I could tell that my hand would tremble . Now his pen was beckoning . I nodded . " Who are you , then ? " he asked me as I sat down at his table . Just beyond ...
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... smile on his face , and he shook his head once over at Frank , who shook his head back . The photographers and the reporters tumbled over one another getting to the parking lot , and took too much time finding dollar bills for the ...
... smile on his face , and he shook his head once over at Frank , who shook his head back . The photographers and the reporters tumbled over one another getting to the parking lot , and took too much time finding dollar bills for the ...
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