When the Mapou Sings

Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to learn from the mountains and the forests around them, to carve, to sew, to draw, and to sing the songs of the Mapou, the sacred trees that dot the island nation. But when her friend vanishes without a trace, a dream-a gift from the Mapou-tells Lucille to go to her village's section chief, the local face of law, order, and corruption, which pu...