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There Is Always A Place Where, If You Listen Closely In The Night, You Will Hear A Mother Telling A Story And At The End Of The Tale, She Will Ask You This Question: 'ou Libéré?' Are You Free, My Daughter?" My Grandmother Quickly Pressed Her Fingers Over My Lips. Now," She Said, "you Will Know How To Answer.

Even When I Think Of Writing Fiction, It's Being Kind Of A Liar, A Storyteller, A Weaver, And There's That Sense Of How Much Of This Is Your Life. The Story Is A Way You Unravel Your Life From Behind A Mask.

I'm Happy To Be Part Of This Chorus Of People Who Are Trying To Tell More Complex Stories About Haiti.

Wonderful Thing About Novels Is That Sometimes We Read A Novel And We Know The Person In The Novel More Than We Know People In Our Own Lives.

To Start With, For Example This Year, 2004, Is The Bicentennial Of Haitian Independence.