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Updated with an introduction regarding the earthquake
Simon & Schuster
April 2010
On Sale: April 13, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 143919839X
EAN: 9781439198391
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from
my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme
poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian
arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of rope or
bungee cord the man needed to tie up a bundle of stuff. The
man had no teeth and gray sprouts of hair and he held the
cord in his hand and was trying to get back to his bundle.
But the officer stopped him. The man spoke no English, the
officer no Creole but the officer knew that all scavenging
had to stop now (as he said repeatedly), because the
bulldozers were coming in and the Army did not want to
bulldoze any scavengers. Finally though, the officer rolling
his eyes and shaking his head slightly, and looking up to
the heavens in a combined gesture of impatience and
resignation not uncommon among people new to Haiti let the
old man leave with his piece of rope."
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