Backstitch: A Novel

From a powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning multigenerational epic, spanning from 1920s Haiti to 1990s New York, centered on the disappearance of a little girl from Brooklyn's J'ouvert celebrations

"With Backstitch, Simmonds-Nastili has placed herself solidly on the map as one of the great Haitian-American novelists of our time." -Chinelo Okparanta, award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees

Brooklyn, 1996. Serenity Marcelin and her six-year-old daughter, Jouvay, have spent the s...