Reviews
"A heady meditation, a psychic tussle that resonates with the furious stuff in James Baldwin's essays or Louis Armstrong's smiling trumpet or Martin Luther King's oratory... honest, brash, unsappy, new."The Village Voice, "A heady meditation, a psychic tussle that resonates with the furious stuff in James Baldwin's essays or Louis Armstrong's smiling trumpet or Martin Luther King's oratory... honest, brash, unsappy, new." The Village Voice, "A heady meditation, a psychic tussle that resonates with the furious stuff in James Baldwin's essays or Louis Armstrong's smiling trumpet or Martin Luther King's oratory... honest, brash, unsappy, new."- The Village Voice, This is the 25th anniversary of the publication of this slim first novel, now a classic of Canadian immigrant literature, by Laferriï??re. The Haitian-Canadian writer has published 14 novels and won many awards, including a Governor-General's award and the Prix Mï??dicis. The book follows the adventures, sexual and otherwise, of a young Haitian man in Montreal, who is writing for his life., "A heady meditation, a psychic tussle that resonates with the furious stuff in James Baldwin's essays or Louis Armstrong's smiling trumpet or Martin Luther King's oratory… honest, brash, unsappy, new."- The Village Voice
