Memory at Bay

Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet—an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant— Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti’s most vital authors, Évelyne Trouillot.

Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young émigré who attends to her needs but who harbors a secret—the bitter loss she ...