![]() He is surrounded by corpses, and soon begins to hallucinate about the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the 18th-century revolutionary who led the slave revolt that gave Haiti its freedom. ![]() Shot by a rival gang member, he is expected to recover, but the earthquake traps him in a pile of rubble that he cannot escape. Shorty was in the hospital when the earthquake struck. In his debut novel, Nick Lake brings readers back to the days immediately following the earthquake through the eyes of Shorty, a Haitian teen trapped in a life of poverty, gang warfare, hunger, and pain. Two years after the earthquake, the crippling poverty and devastation faced by the Haitian people has all but disappeared from the news in the United States. ![]()
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