{"product_id":"farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti-1451643977","title":"Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1451643977\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wilentz, Amy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant writers account of a long, painful, ecstatic-and unreciprocated-affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentzs award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable account of a journalists transformation by her subject. In her relationship with the country since then, Wilentz has witnessed more than one magical transformation. Now, with Farewell, Fred Voodoo, she gives us a vivid portrayal of the extraordinary people living in this stark place.Wilentz traces the countrys history from its slave plantations through its turbulent revolutionary history, its kick-up-the-dirt guerrilla movements, its totalitarian dynasty that ruled for decades, and its long and always troubled relationship with the United States. Yet through a history of hardship shines Haitis creative culture-its African traditions, its French inheritance, and its uncanny resilience, a strength that is often confused with resignation.Haiti emerged from the dust of the 2010 earthquake like a powerful spirit, and this stunning book describes the countrys day-to-day struggle and its relationship to outsiders who come to help out. There are human-rights reporters gone awry, movie stars turned aid workers, priests and musicians running for president, doctors turned diplomats. A former U.S. president works as a house builder and voodoo priests try to control elections.A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages of this book, a lover of Haiti, pursuing the essence of this beautiful and confounding land into its darkest and brightest corners. Farewell, Fred Voodoo is a spiritual journey into the heart of the human soul, and Haiti has found in Amy Wilentz an author of astonishing wit, sympathy, and eloquence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325364502816,"sku":"NEW1451643977","price":16.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71qIS-GtdZL.jpg?v=1773154619","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti-1451643977","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}