**** RECOMMEND ****
2015 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS
2015 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS
You can't avert your eyes from the emotional wreckage
I guess it wouldn’t be promoted
by Haiti Tourism!
This is a cold hard read. It is unrelenting in its
awfulness. It has a dark, dark
heart that is wrapped in pain and despair. It is sexually violent, misogynistic, an accusation of
political and moral corruption and a bleak picture of a spiral into depression.
But with all those evils, with all its
brutality, it was an unmissable read.
My main negative was that, as the narrative
was very much from the point of view of the victim, Mireille, some of the other characters and
relationships were not fully developed.
And there was an element of emotional manipulation with the use of
repetition and highly-polished, overwrought sentences.
