What Storm, What Thunder by Chancy, Myriam Ja

At the end of a long, sweltering day, 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 disaster--Richard, 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.

Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and--at the same time--an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

Author: Myriam Ja Chancy
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781951142766

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 08/16/2021
Booklist 09/01/2021 pg. 38
Library Journal 09/24/2021 pg. 1