10
years ago this month, my first book, Notes from the Last Testament: The
Struggle for Haiti, was published by Seven Stories Press. An account of
Haiti from 1994 to 2004 and pivotal sections of its history that preceded that time, it was my attempt to tell everything I knew that
had happened there to the letter, letting the chips fall were they may,
and to give a voice to so many, from the lanes of Cité Soleil to the
mountains of the Plateau Central, who had shown me Haiti and helped me
begin to understand what the struggle was all about. A decade later,
"Notes" keeps popping up in the most unexpected places and pissing off
all the right people. Happy 10th birthday, little book.
