num_pages: 313
description: At the end of a long sweltering day as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disasterRichard an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter Anne an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker Leopold who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner Dieudonn who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband Olivier an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son Jonas who haunts them both; and Ma Lou the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weaving together these lives witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man.Brilliantly crafted fiercely imagined and deeply haunting What Storm What Thunder is a singular stunning record a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster andat the same timean unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
language: English
title: What Storm, What Thunder
publisher: Tin House Books