Silence and Resistance by Monique Clesca – Two Voices of the Same Body

By Kettly Mars
October 2025

I read Silence and Resistance by Monique Clesca with great interest and pleasure. It is the memoir of a little Black girl from the middle class who takes us through the intricacies of Haitian society in the 1950s and 60s with contagious energy. Whether the reader, like me, lived through that period or not, the desire to follow the story of these lives—shared with such generous honesty—keeps one engaged until the very end. From the outset, Moni