Dark Days in Port-au-Prince: AkashicBooks Serial Noir

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(The following post is an excerpt from Akashic Books’ Website).

To celebrate the release of Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Edwidge Danticat, we asked contributors from both of our Haiti Noir volumes to participate in an exquisite corpse style story—a serial story in which each participant builds off of what the previous participants have written—to create an original piece of fiction with a decidedly dark tone. Check back each Friday through February 7th for a new installment of this six-part short story with sections from Roxane Gay, M.J. Fievre, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Katia D. Ulysse, Josaphat-Robert Large, and Edwidge Danticat.

HaitiNoir2_TheClassics-506x800This first installment of Dark Days in Port-au-Prince comes from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics contributor Roxane Gay.

SNOW: Because There’s No Translation

Choublak Haiti 2010“Nèj tonbe tankou asid ki fè tout po m dekale. Kouman w ta vle rad lamarye pèpè zonbi sa a ta chita sou de zepòl mwen? Abiman blan se dèy ki pa gendwa janm fè m byen.”

Read “Nèj” in Kreyòl Pale

http://www.voicesfromhaiti.com/kreyol/nej/