{"product_id":"sweet-undoings","title":"Sweet Undoings","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSweet Undoings\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYanick Lahens\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781646052158\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDeep Vellum Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e228\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eYanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a \"high-pitched sweetness\", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Corossol Restaurant-Bar, when the broken, rich voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrune's father, Judge Berthier, was assassinated, guilty of maintaining integrity in a city where everything is bought. Six months after this disappearance, Brune wholly refuses to come to terms with what happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this unpunished crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside Brune and Pierre, Francis becomes acquainted with myriad other voices of Port-au-Prince, including Ézèegrave;chiel, a poet desperate to escape his miserable neighborhood; Waner, a diligent pacifist; and Ronny the American, at ease in Haiti as in a second homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing its power from the bowels of the city, \u003ci\u003eSweet Undoings\u003c\/i\u003e moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the richness of the lives within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Sweet Undoings | Yanick Lahens | Paperback | 9781646052158 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1716410","offer_id":48753957306520,"sku":"1716410","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61oPO_TklAL.jpg?v=1774070719","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/sweet-undoings","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}