Spirit of Haiti

Gold Winner of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBTQ+ Fiction category

Spirit of Haiti is a moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

Vivid and poignant, the novel follows Léah, an apparition who rises from the sea like a siren; Carmen, who returns to Haiti from Canada, drawn by the call of the vodou spirits; Alexis, who flees the island in search of peace; and Philippe, who roams the northern hills, haunted by ancestral voices and weakened by illness, striving to maintain his dignity in the face of despair.

Originally published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize in the Caribbean and Canada region, Spirit of Haiti is a powerful novel about confronting the failings of the human heart and the triumph of memory over sorrow.