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Heading South: A Novel

A steamy exploration of desire and sexual tourism by the author of How to Make Love to a Negro. On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of "Baby Doc" Duvalier's notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanfan, Charlie, and Legba, aware […]

Down among the Dead Men

The story of Dany Laferriere, the narrator and writer living in exile in Montreal, who finally comes home to Haiti. Nothing is different, and yet everything has changed. There is his mother, who has never left Haiti, not even for one minute, and who still performs all the rituals of old. But there is also the […]

Dining With the Dictator

An innocent boy, raised in the tragic world of Haiti under the Duvaliers, becomes mixed up in an incident involving the hated secret police at a Port-au-Prince bar and seeks revenge in a worldly young woman's house.