An Unexpected Visit to the Homeland

Port-au-Prince: A Possible Spring

It had been seven years since I had been to Haiti. The news was never good. According to those who had returned, the country had finally hit rock bottom. This assessment came from reliable people who had lived through the most tragic moments in the country’s history. Gang leaders had plunged Haiti into an absurd world. That was when I understood that, if I did not return immediately, I risked watching the country slip into an inaccessible corner of my memory. I therefore acce