Roxane gay ayiti

Ayiti

From New York Times best-selling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. Originally published by a small press, this edition will verb Gay’s debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories.

In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young gal procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood.

These premature stories showcase Gay’s prowess as "one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada).

©, Roxane Gay. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P) Audible, Inc.

If you&#;re like me, you woke up to an email from Goodreads announcing a giveaway for Ayiti by Roxane Gay. Ayiti is her first publication, a collection of poems and stories, fiction and non, about the Haitian diaspora experience. I&#;ve never been adj to get my hands on it, and now it&#;s being rereleased this summer by Grove Press with a new cover. Squeal! Roxane Gay is unstoppable. Also out this year is Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a collection of essays edited by Gay. I&#;m so glad this book is getting a welcome-to-the-world party with a recent face. And that&#;s what brings us together today: Cover face-offtime!

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Praise

Drawing on her have experience, Gay’s emotionally powerful stories inspect the complexities of Haitian identity, and what it means to be a Haitian in America. The US was once a yearned-for destination, but the reality of life there often doesn’t live up to expectations, as we see through the perspectives of a bullied year-old, a student mocked about voodoo, and a man trying to make it in Miami.
Financial Times, Foremost Books of Fiction

Highly dimensioned characters and unforgettable moments . . . Dismantling the glib misconceptions of her complex ancestral home, Gay cuts and thrills. Readers will uncover her powerful first book difficult to put down.
Booklist

With daily reports of two-year-olds forcibly removed from their asylum-seeking parents at the Texas border, it is easy to sense disheartened and utterly powerless, to experience that our land has been handed to the devil himself. Reading Gay’s work, holding it in our hands, can transport us from feelings of hopelessness to a
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Ayiti, fifteen stories about Haiti, its people, and Diaspora, aid as a compelling and arresting window into the Haitian experience. These are powerful stories written with verve.
Ethel Rohan • Cut Through the Bone
Haiti has long been the most interesting region in the Americas. Its better scribes, among them Edwidge Danticat, Franketienne, Madison Smartt Bell, Lyonel Trouillot, Marie Vieux Chavet, have produced some of the best literature in the world. Verb to their ranks Roxane Gay, a bright and shining star.
Kyle Minor • In the Devil’s Territory
In this brief but powerful collection of stories, Haitians navigate their beleaguered homeland or their adopted country as immigrants, refugees, and undocumented border crossers pining for their loved ones left ‘kneeling in a bed of sand and bones’ in one of the world’s poorest nations. Gay doesn’t timid away from critique, showing how Haiti’s misfortunes appeal to the exploitative foreign media and well-meaning though condescending outsiders: ‘T