{"product_id":"sweet-undoings-9781646052158","title":"Sweet Undoings","description":"\u003cb\u003eYanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a high-pitched sweetness, a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Korosòl Resto-Bar, when the broken and deep voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrune's father, Judge Berthier, was assassinated, guilty of maintaining integrity in a city where everything is bought. Six months after this disappearance, Brune wholly refuses to come to terms with what has happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this still unpunished crime as well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlongside Brune and Pierre, Francis becomes acquainted with myriad other voices of Port-au-Prince: Ezekiel, the poet desperate to escape his miserable neighborhood; Nerline, women's rights activist; Waner, diligent pacifist; and Ronny the American, at home in Haiti as in a second homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNourishing its power from the bowels of the city, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the intimacy of the lives within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228","brand":"Yanick Lahens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520623317173,"sku":"9781646052158","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_962b4191-8589-410f-a815-504ed377bada.jpg?v=1669130502","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sweet-undoings-9781646052158","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}