Details:
- author: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- full title: What Storm, What Thunder
- narrator: Ella Turenne
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #haiti #earthquake#family
- publisher: OrangeSky Audio
- publish date: 05.10.2021
- timing: 11:00:38
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙.5
- narration: 💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
It started with a tug on her right elbow as she was sleeping, sometime earlier than spring, after the last of her loves has disappeared, two at once, then the other two, one after the next, over a matter of a few weeks, after she had come to the camp set up beneath the broken cathedral in the middle of the neighbourhood. It didn’t disturb her at first. She mistook the feeling for her own hand, holding itself close in slumber.
My Thoughts:
This novel is beautifully written and so, so sad.
What Storm, What Thunder tells a story of an earthquake in Haiti that took place on January 12, 2010 and how it affected various people. Each chapter is a story of a different person and her (or his) experience with the earthquake. These people are interconnected, and some of them know each other. So we get to know the story of the earthquake from quite a few different points of view.
The narrator is very good, and I liked her narration. But I think it would be better if there was a male narrator for male characters.
About the Author:
Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D. (U of Iowa 1994), is a Haitian Canadian/American writer/scholar born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in the Canadian cities of Quebec City and Winnipeg. What Storm, What Thunder (Tin House, 2021), is her North American debut novel, on the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She previously published 3 novels in the UK, Spirit of Haiti (Mango 2003), a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004, The Scorpion's Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005) and The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press 2010), winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize Best Fiction Caribbean Award. She is also the author of 4 academic works, including Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers UP 1997) and Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora (IUP 2020). She is a fellow of the John S. Guggenheim Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.
