A review by chelseamartinez
A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez

3.0

This was an "impulse buy" at the library for me; I'm aware there are many hundreds of books on Haiti that I could have read instead, but since I have read some of Alvarez's other books it seemed more accessible. So, it's written very candidly as the perspective of a well-to-do Dominican writer and her white husband who have Haitian employees they come to consider family (and vice versa) making trips across the island the DR and Haiti share. Things I am reading lately seem to overlap coincidentally with our very stupid political moment, but only cursorily, I realize - if I read more than one book about Haiti then it won't be noteworthy in my memory that this one - which is frank but hopeful about Haiti after the 2010 earthquake - was what I was reading when the president of America made openly racist comments about its people and other people living in hardship around the world. So here's a note to seek out some more books on the nation in the future.