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Myriam J. A. Chancy

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    • (2023) Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (University of Texas Press)
    • (2023) Spirit of Haiti (A Novel) – 20th Anniversary Edition – SUNY Press
    • (2023) Voix/ Éclairs/ Tonnerres – Les Martiales
    • (2021) What Storm, What Thunder (HarperCollins Canada & Tin House Press)
    • (2024) Village Weavers: A novel (Tin House Press)
    • (2020) Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
    • (2012) From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
    • (2010) The Loneliness of Angels
    • (2005) The Scorpion’s Claw
    • (2003) Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series)
    • (1997) Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women
    • (1997) Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile
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  • Biography
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    • (1997) Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women
    • (1997) Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile
    • (2003) Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series)
    • (2005) The Scorpion’s Claw
    • (2010) The Loneliness of Angels
    • (2012) From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
    • (2020) Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
    • (2021) What Storm, What Thunder (HarperCollins Canada & Tin House Press)
    • (2023) Voix/ Éclairs/ Tonnerres – Les Martiales
    • (2023) Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (University of Texas Press)
    • (2023) Spirit of Haiti (A Novel) – 20th Anniversary Edition – SUNY Press
    • (2024) Village Weavers: A novel (Tin House Press)
  • Audio/Video: Readings & Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Haiti Relief Funds
  • TRANSLATIONS
  • Contact

Reviews for Loneliness of Angels (2010)

“A major new work in Caribbean fiction.”
– Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award Jury

“The Loneliness of Angels is ambitious…an important document of contemporary Haiti as affected by its recent history and its connections with the outside world.”
– Al Creighton’s “Arts on Sunday,” Sunday Stabroek, Guyana (September 25, 2011)

“The Loneliness of Angels reframes migration…as movement that both marks the people and history of the Caribbean and links to something beyond, what [Chancy] has recently called ‘the ability to conceive of a world greater than ourselves and greater than the islands of our origins.’ ….With [this novel] Chancy has exploited and expanded the novel’s form to leave her readers with memorable characters and compelling stories…”
– Sarah Barbour, “The Movement of Migration,” The Caribbean Writer Vol. 25 (Summer 2011)

“Anthems, songs to angels, a character’s obsession with Chopin — music provides spaces of reprieve within the painful memories captured by this novel….[Ruth]’s a fascinating figure [revealed] in a gripping first sentence — ‘Ruth smoothes the plastic covering her memory table as if she is trying to undo wrinkles in time’….The character Rose is even more compelling…The chapter devoted to her is worth the price of the book.”
– Winnipeg Free Press, 4/7/10

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