![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative is as disturbing (people are hacked to death, an encephalitic baby is found alive in a trash pile) as it is challenging the book moves back and forth in time from Shorty’s fictional first-person account, shot through with street slang and Creole, to Toussaint’s story, told in third-person. In a startling but successful feat of literary imagination, Lake (the Blood Ninja series) pairs Shorty’s story with that of Toussaint l’Ouverture, the 18th-century slave who led the revolt that forced out the island’s French colonizers. As time wears on without rescue, he relives the journey that brought him to the hospital with a bullet wound, recounting his life running drugs and gunning down enemies for one of Site Solèy’s most notorious gangs. Shorty, 15, is trapped in the rubble of a hospital following the 2010 earthquake that left Haiti in ruins. ![]()
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