Lavil - Life, Love, and Death in Port-Au-Prince

About the author

Peter Orner edited Voice of Witness titlesUnderground Americaand co-editedHope Deferred,and is the author of four books of fiction, including the novelsThe Second Coming of MavalaShikongoandLove and Shame and Love. His most recent book,Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge,was aNew York TimesEditor's Choice and named a Favorite Book of 2013 by theWall StreetJournal.

Dr. Evan Lyon has worked in Haiti since 1996 and is currently the Chief Integrated Health Officer at Heartland Health Outreach in Chicago. Through his work with Partners in Health, Lyon has helped community-based responses to address HIV, tuberculosis and broader public health concerns throughout Haiti. He has also frequently collaborated with Paul Farmer on articles related to social medicine and human rights.

Summary

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

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“A book about choosing to live and not to die, to fight, to survive, to thrive.”
—Edwidge Danticat

“Nothing is more eloquent than the voice of those who endure and try valiantly to survive.”
—Noam Chomsky

“Lavil brings to the fore the voices of the people of the wounded city of Port-au-Prince … these stories are redolent of both pride and fears of an uncertain future.”
—Paul Farmer, author, Haiti After the Earthquake

“Lavil is a powerful collection of testimonies, which include tales of violence, poverty, and instability but also joy, hustle, and the indomitable will to survive.”
—Vice

“Lavil is not just a recitation of complaint and tragedy, though those are certainly included within it. It provides, instead, a chorus of stubborn and lively persistence—of a kind one can usually only imagine.”
—Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Edwidge Danticat, Evan Lyon, Peter Orner, Voice of Witness, Voice of Witness
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786633774
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-377-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Voice of Witness; Voice of Witness
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Haiti, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social impact of disasters, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)