Moonbath
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Moonbath
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Moonbath
An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.
Galleys mailing to all major review outlets as well as alternative review sources in November 2016 Author Russell Banks writing the introduction Blurbs targeting Ben Fountain (his next novel is set in Haiti and has already pledged a blurb and possibly a review) and Junot Diaz (similar mixture of the literary and the political in his work from the other side of the island that contains Haiti and Dominican Republic) Cultural Services of the French Embassy to sponsor the first author public appearances in the US planned for festivals, bookstores, and universities throughout in early fall 2016 First serial rights targeting The Paris Review, the New Yorker, McSweeneyβs, the White Review; One Story, Guernica, Tin House Author publicity targeting interviews, essays, and more in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Rookie, Washington Post, etc. Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum) Promotion in the publisherβs e-newsletter Promotion at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, Book Expo America, Dallas Book Festival, and Bay Area Book Festival. Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon, the Quarterly Conversation, and more Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as The American Reader, Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, and others
Winner of the 2014 Prix Femina & 2015 French Voices Award
After she is found washed up on shore, Cetoute Olmene Therese, bloody and bruised, recalls the circumstances that led her there. Her voice weaves hauntingly in and out of the narrative, as her story intertwines with those of three generations of women in her family, beginning with Olmene, her grandmother.
Olmene, barely sixteen, catches the eye of the cruel and powerful Tertulien Mesidor, despite the generations-long feud between their families which cast her ancestors into poverty. He promises her shoes, dresses, land, and children who will want for nothing... and five months after moving into her new home, she gives birth to a son. As the family struggles through political and economic turmoil, the narrative shifts between the voices of four women, their lives interwoven with magic and fraught equally with hope and despair, leading to Cetoute's ultimate, tragic fate.
Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953 and is one of Haiti's most prominent authors. She published her first novel in 2000, was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina in 2014 for Moonbath, and is the 2016 winner of a French Voices Award.
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Moonbath by Yanick Lahens is deeply praised for its evocative depiction of twentieth-century Haiti. It has been described as a novel of poetic and violent beauty, offering a poignant exploration of tradition, politics, and history. Reviewers highlight Lahens's ability to transport readers into a vivid and complex world, drawing comparisons to the transformative experience of reading works by Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781941920565
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 November 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Emily Gogolak
- Introduction by Russell Banks
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 216
About the Author
Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending school and university in France, she returned to Haiti., where she taught literature at the university in Port-au-Prince and worked for the Ministry of Culture. Her first novel was published in 2000, and she won the prestigious Prix Femina for Moonbath in 2014.
won a 2015 French Voices Award.
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