{"product_id":"ayiti","title":"Ayiti","description":"\u003cp\u003eAyiti is a collection of short stories about the Haitian diaspora experience. In one, a married couple get ready to leave their homeland and look for boat passage to America. In another, a mother lets a foreign soldier lodge with her and also share her bed. A third follows a daughter conceived beside a river while her mother flees a massacre. She later builds a new life in America, yet a strange smell of blood follows her. This edition adds two stories not collected before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWhy You Should Read?\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore the Haitian diaspora experience through stories that move between the clever and the haunting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFollow a married couple as they prepare to leave their homeland and seek boat passage to America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeet a daughter who moves to America and is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoxane Gay\u003c\/strong\u003e was born on October 15, 1974. She is an American writer, professor, editor and social commentator. Her books include the New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), the story collections Ayiti (2011) and Difficult Women (2017), the novel An Untamed State (2014), and the memoir Hunger (2017). She taught at Eastern Illinois University for four years, then at Purdue University, where she was tenured. In 2018 she left Purdue to be a visiting professor at Yale University. She later joined Rutgers University. She founded Tiny Hardcore Press and writes opinion pieces for The New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constable","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71526944178429,"sku":null,"price":798.0,"currency_code":"NPR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/4145\/8840\/files\/9781472154187-d2a184da645ffc3e.jpg?v=1791791760","url":"https:\/\/biblionepal.com\/ja\/products\/ayiti","provider":"BIBLIONEPAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}