Temple Frances - A Taste Of Salt: A Story Of Modern Haiti - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Every Life Makes a Story Djo has a story: Once he was one of " Titid's boys " a vital member of Father Jean - Bertrand Aristide's election team fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive the victim of a political firebombing. Jeremie has a story: Convent - educated Jeremie can climb out of the slums of Port - au - Prince. But she is torn between her mother's hopes and her own wishes for herself and for Haiti. Father Jean - Bertrand Aristide has a story: A dream of a new Haiti one in which every person would have a decent life a house with a roof clean water to drink a good plate of rice and beans every day a field to work in. At Aristide's request Djo tells his story to Jeremie - - for Titid believes in the power of all of their stories to make change. As Jeremie listens to Djo and to her own heart she knows that they will begin a new story one that is all their own together.
Title: A Taste Of Salt: A Story Of Modern Haiti
Author(s): Temple Frances
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780064471367
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2004
Category: General Fiction (Children's / Teenage)