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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maritza Moulite, Maika Moulite
I received this as an eARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Alaine’s mother is a leading political journalist, who is always breaking the leading story. This leaves very little time for actually interacting with her daughter. Alaine wants to follow in her mother’s journalism footsteps and asks her mother to come to school for career day and surprisingly her mother is planning on coming. Alaine’s mother asks her classmates to watch her show before she comes, which turns out to be a disaster. On the show that the school is watching, Alaine’s mother slaps one of her guests, on camera, live. Alaine’s mother quickly retreats to her family home in Haiti. After Alaine pulls a stunt in response to the bullying over her mother’s faux paus, she is quickly sent to serve out community service in Haiti near her mother. Alaine finds out that her mother is suffering from early on-set Alzheimer’s and they must use what little time they have left to grow their relationship. While in Haiti, Alaine interns for her aunt’s charitable organization and works to save her mother by breaking a family curse. There is a lot going on for this family.
This book was real, but was funny. Alaine never lost her sense of humor, even while she was dealing with a difficult set of circumstances. It was fantastic seeing all of the pieces and parts of Haiti, instead of just focusing on the best and worst aspects. I enjoyed this novel and am willing to read any future items by these authors.
Alaine’s mother is a leading political journalist, who is always breaking the leading story. This leaves very little time for actually interacting with her daughter. Alaine wants to follow in her mother’s journalism footsteps and asks her mother to come to school for career day and surprisingly her mother is planning on coming. Alaine’s mother asks her classmates to watch her show before she comes, which turns out to be a disaster. On the show that the school is watching, Alaine’s mother slaps one of her guests, on camera, live. Alaine’s mother quickly retreats to her family home in Haiti. After Alaine pulls a stunt in response to the bullying over her mother’s faux paus, she is quickly sent to serve out community service in Haiti near her mother. Alaine finds out that her mother is suffering from early on-set Alzheimer’s and they must use what little time they have left to grow their relationship. While in Haiti, Alaine interns for her aunt’s charitable organization and works to save her mother by breaking a family curse. There is a lot going on for this family.
This book was real, but was funny. Alaine never lost her sense of humor, even while she was dealing with a difficult set of circumstances. It was fantastic seeing all of the pieces and parts of Haiti, instead of just focusing on the best and worst aspects. I enjoyed this novel and am willing to read any future items by these authors.