Sweet Undoings
Lahens Yanick / Glover Kaiama L.
Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings.
In 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 Korosòl Resto-Bar, when the broken and deep voice of loune singer Brune rises from the microphone.
Brune's father, Judge Berthier, was assassinated, guilty of maintaini...