Publication date 5/10/21 320 Pages
I loved the cover of this book and the title so i just picked it not knowing what is was about. When I read the synopsis I knew this was going to be a good book. I must thank Netgalley and Orangesky Audio books for allowing me to read and review this book (well listen).
Synopsis
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weaving together these lives, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man.
Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
My Review
This is a very strong and powerful work of fiction. I listened to the audio book and found the narrator was brilliant at the female parts but I did get confused when it got to the males voices as they didn't change and i thought they were still women. I would of been 5 stars if there was a male and female narrator.
This novel was inspired by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The author follows the lives of a number of people who will be affected in different ways because of the disaster. This book really shocked me at the extend of the disaster and its wrote with such passion and really portrays how devastating disaster can be. The author creates real life characters that are both believable and that you feel a connection with. This makes it read like a non fiction book, which I always like. This book is an emotional and shocking tale that I and really am glad I read.
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this section will be added after publication date however I'm sure it can be pre ordered now
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