{"product_id":"sweet-undoings-yanick-lahens-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\u003cbr\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 Corossol Restaurant-Bar, when the broken, rich voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\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 happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this unpunished crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside Brune and Pierre, Francis becomes acquainted with myriad other voices of Port-au-Prince, including Ézèegrave;chiel, a poet desperate to escape his miserable neighborhood; Waner, a diligent pacifist; and Ronny the American, at ease in Haiti as in a second homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 richness of the lives within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yanick Lahens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646052153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2023","brand":"Yanick Lahens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068130849023,"sku":"9781646052158","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fa50f60-b2c4-4127-a252-efe943c32ee8.jpg?v=1685417212","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sweet-undoings-yanick-lahens-9781646052158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}