It Is The Calm And Silent Waters

The Best Moment In Writing Any Book Is When You Just Can't Wait To Get Back To The Writing, When You Can't Wait To Re-enter That Fictional Place, When Your Fictional Town Feels Even More Real Than The Town Where You Actually Live.

And The Fact That Haiti Was Occupied For 19 Years By The United States, From 1915 To 1934.

There Is A Frustration Too, That At Moments When There's Not A Coup, When There Are Not People In The Streets, That The Country Disappears From People's Consciousness.

I'm Happy To Be Part Of This Chorus Of People Who Are Trying To Tell More Complex Stories About Haiti.

Wonderful Thing About Novels Is That Sometimes We Read A Novel And We Know The Person In The Novel More Than We Know People In Our Own Lives.