God Loves Haiti (9780062348142)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Heartfelt thanks, for their support through the journey to publication, to my agent, Robert Guinsler; my editor, Tracy Sherrod Fumi, and the team at Amistad and HarperCollins; and Edwidge Danticat; Junot Díaz; Madison Smartt Bell; Andrea Lee; Gary Shteyngart; Dany Laferrière; my sister Yanick Léger; my big brother, Elias “Tilou” Léger, and his wife, Marie; my kid brother, Steve; uncle George Clervoix and his family; Tisha Shea Harty; Tjade Graves; Adam Bradley; Kelvin Bias; Jason Liu; Stéphane Vincent; Marvin Barksdale; Christian Provencher; Ken and Rebecca Kurson; Daniel Loedel; Geoff Shandler; and Chloe Tattanelli and her family in Florence. In Geneva: Anthony Nguyen; Linden Morrison; Marcus Brown; Fran Costello; Frédéric Savioz. In France: Marvin Agustus and Vanessa Huguenin; Dominic and Lauren Waughray; Mirjam Schoening and Henrik Naujoks; and Fabrice and Elisabeth David.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DIMITRY ELIAS LÉGER was born in 1971 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Educated at St. John’s University and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, he is a former staff writer at the Miami Herald, Fortune magazine, and the Source magazine, the seminal hip-hop monthly, and also a contributor to the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Face magazine in the UK. In 2010, he worked as an advisor to the United Nations’ disaster recovery operations in Haiti after an earthquake. God Loves Haiti is his first novel. He lives between France and the United States with his family.
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COPYRIGHT
GOD LOVES HAITI. Copyright © 2015 by Dimitry Elias Léger. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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EPub Edition January 2015 ISBN 9780062348142
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