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LAVIL: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince, ed. Peter Orner and Evan Lyon, 2017, Verso Books
"Built for 200,000 people, yet home to more than 2 million, Port-au-Prince is a city that constantly reminds you of the obvious...it is a testamonial city. It is a city that everything - fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, political upheaval - has conspired to destroy, yet it still carries on, in part due to the resoluteness of the people."
✒️ from Edwidge Danticat's introduction to LAVIL
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This is a collection of oral histories of Haitians in and around "Lavil" - Kreyol for "the city" (or downtown) of Port-au-Prince.
The January 2010 earthquake serves as time point here; stories often relate to where people were at that time, and how their lives changed.
There are a range of ages and experiences shared here, from teens to elders, family members who work together when they have lost everything, LGBTQ activists providing a refuge for people who are disowned by their families, religious leaders of many belief systems, hospital patients with HIV/AIDS, school teachers and community organizers, and many others.
"Built for 200,000 people, yet home to more than 2 million, Port-au-Prince is a city that constantly reminds you of the obvious...it is a testamonial city. It is a city that everything - fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, political upheaval - has conspired to destroy, yet it still carries on, in part due to the resoluteness of the people."
✒️ from Edwidge Danticat's introduction to LAVIL
.
This is a collection of oral histories of Haitians in and around "Lavil" - Kreyol for "the city" (or downtown) of Port-au-Prince.
The January 2010 earthquake serves as time point here; stories often relate to where people were at that time, and how their lives changed.
There are a range of ages and experiences shared here, from teens to elders, family members who work together when they have lost everything, LGBTQ activists providing a refuge for people who are disowned by their families, religious leaders of many belief systems, hospital patients with HIV/AIDS, school teachers and community organizers, and many others.
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