Book Discussion: What Storm, What Thunder (One Maryland, One Book)
Monday, September 16, 2024 6pm
About this Event
3641 Falls Road Baltimore, MD 21211
Join the Enoch Pratt Free Library and Maryland Humanities for a discussion of the book What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy. FREE copies of the book are available on a first come, first served basis as sponsored by Maryland Humanities.
At the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all.