Ayiti - Softcover

Roxane Gay is also the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Hunger; the story collection Difficult Women; the novel An Untamed State, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the essay collection Bad Feminist; and several comic books in Marvel’s Black Panther: World of Wakanda series. She divides her time between Indiana and Los Angeles.

Ayiti, fifteen stories about Haiti, its people, and Diaspora, serve as a compelling and arresting window into the Haitian experience. These are powerful stories written with verve and there's this great sense at the collection's close that

--Ethel Rohan, author of Cut Through the Bone

Haiti has long been the most interesting country in the Americas. Its better scribes, among them Edwidge Danticat, Franketienne, Madison Smartt Bell, Lyonel Trouillot, Marie Vieux Chavet, have produced some of the best literature in the world. Add to their ranks Roxane Gay, a bright and shining star. 

--Kyle Minor, author of In The Devil's Territory