Haiti Noir

This collection of short stories was published at the time of the 2010 Haiti earthquake & the opening story is set during this terrible event. This opening story & a few of the others are excellent, but most of the tales here are a mixed bag of quality. I expected more from this collection, but at le......more

I had read Haiti Noir 2 and I eagerly wanted to read the first one and I am happy I got my hands on this. Shout out to the National Library and Trinidad and Tobago for having this on the help. Haiti Noir is edited by none other by the great Haitian author Edwidge Danticat and features stories from......more

This is the first book in the "Noir" series by Akashic Books that I have read. I was interested for the obvious reason - the Earthquake that devastated the country. What would the stories coming out of this country be like? As a bonus, Edwidge Danticat was involved in this collection of stories; so,......more

I'm not gonna lie, I had to look up what noir even meant. For those ignorant hillbillies like myself, noir is a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. However, according the intro to the book, noir is also the French word for black, and Haiti became......more

Well-written and jarring. I won't read noir anymore because it's not my thing and creeps me out too much, but I certainly learned more about Haitian culture than my parents even told me about. It's going to spark some interesting conversation between me and my mother.......more