Name: Ayiti
ISBN: 9780802128263

Roxane Gay

The powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, now widely available for the first time in Grove Press paperback.

Ayiti

Lindsay

Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.

“Why do men always assume women are angry when they are honest? I’m not angry.”

Let’s not sit here and tell each other everything there is to know about who we once loved. I am tired of listening to men talk about their regrets.”

The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all interwoven to represent the Haitian diaspora experience. Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest where she is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in NOON, New Stories From the Midwest 2011, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, Chattahoochee Review, The Rumpus and many others.

Favorites:

-Cheap, Fast, Thrilling

-The Harder They Come

-All Things Being Relative

-Gracias, Nicaragua y Lo Sentimos

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Originally published by a small press, this edition will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories. 'These early stories showcase Gay's prowess as one of the voices of our age' (National Post, Canada).

Ayiti HB

Ryan 

read without one of the stories which is too long for me to read that was in the beginning of the book (ish)