Mangoes & Roosters: Stories and Tales of Haiti

2023 FAPA Award Winner

This is some amazing writing. ~ Gary Allen, author of Tabula Rasa, Baby

... an engrossing and enlightening read from start to finish. ~ Leo Racicot, author of Alone in the Yard: Buddhist, Beat and Otherwise

A fictional exploration of Haitian life by the author of the award-winning A Hastiness of Cooks and Stoves & Suitcases.
Ever since colonial days, when France claimed it as her own, Haiti carried within it an aura of the unknown and the mysterious. Once called the “Pearl of the Antilles,�? Haiti became for a time the largest sugar-producing region in the world, thanks to plantations populated by thousands of enslaved Africans, who rose up and defeated their French masters in a bloody revolution in 1804. Rift with unrest ever since, Haiti continues to be an enigma, with its rich culture of art and literature and Vodun, yet forever misunderstood. Mangoes & Roosters, based on a few words found in the popular song, “Haiti Cherie,�? paints fictional portraits of key players in Haitian society and culture.