Join thousands of other Marylanders at one of the many book discussions and related programs
happening around the state this fall for One Maryland One Book! All One Maryland One Book events
listed are open to the public and FREE!
This year, join us as we read What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy!
“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.
Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular,
stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an
unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.”