"Laura Wagner has managed to get a huge amount of Haiti into the pages of this book: the sun, the rain, the bottomless spiral of catastrophe, rage, despair and indomitable hope." --Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti "In Haiti they say 'Krey l pale, Krey l konprann.' Speak plainly and honestly, and be understood. Laura Wagner does just that in this brave, beautiful book, bringing us the complex life of Magdalie, and...