{"title":"Books by Emmelie Prophète","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781542031295","title":"Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning Haitian novel about silence, beauty, and the solidarity of tears.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAirports are distillations of the world. I like thinking of them that way. The hope of leaving and the desire to come home, existing side by side. Any voyage is possible. My mind flies off toward the blue province once again. I don’t know, anymore, why I always associate it with blue. It isn’t even my favorite color.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling alone from Miami to Port-au-Prince, our narrator finds comfort at the airport. She feels free to ponder the silence that surrounds her homeland, her mother, her aunts, and her own inner thoughts. Between two places, she sees how living in poverty keeps women silent, forging their identities around practicality and resilience. From a distance, she is drawn inevitably homeward toward her family and the glittering blue Caribbean Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e comes alive through vivid images crowding the page, just as memories do in real life, as if the author is trying to sort through them, to come to grips with her own emotional conflict. Balancing the pain and anger are spiritual bonds that connect the author to the women who have come before her, who have created her, and with Haiti itself, her motherland. No amount of glittering opportunity up north can prevent her from finding her way home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303926739317,"sku":"9781542031295","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781542031295_89d5969a-0ffd-47fb-be47-fc866b6b563c.jpg?v=1786023074"},{"product_id":"9781962770415","title":"Cécé","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written.” —Dany Laferrière\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCécé La Flamme, as she’s known by her loyal Facebook friends, captures photographs of still bodies. Figures scorched and bruised, left to the rubble of the Cité of Divine Power. When she posts an image of a corpse, Cécé’s followers skyrocket. “Nothing got more attention than a good corpse that was nice and warm or already rotting.” Just beside visions of rot and neglect, she posts pictures of her toes, gullies crisscrossing the cité, and her own lips painted blue. With every image, Cécé seeks control and wants to create a frank, intimate record of the terror in her cité.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCécé’s world begins and ends with the cité – a slum peopled by gangs, yelping kids, grandmothers, junkies, and preachers. The very gate that encloses the cité was constructed by militant gang members. First boss Freddy, then Joël, then Jules César rule the gang that holds the cité in a chokehold. Sharp, sincere, and desperate, Cécé cleaves life for herself out of social media, sex work, and attempts at friendship with other women. When an American journalist offers to buy the rights to Cécé’s photographs, she demands double the cash. When an abusive former client dies, she wears hot pink to his funeral. Emmelie Prophète’s novel is fierce, devastating, and suggestive – a record of a woman clawing back control.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309750825333,"sku":"9781962770415","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781962770415_d3666971-794a-4c0d-aa42-8cb4ba51b890.jpg?v=1786030595"},{"product_id":"cece","title":"Cece","description":"I had nothing but the present and stories with no beginningsTwenty-year-old Cécé is used to the sound of gunfire. Growing up in the Cité of Divine Power, where bodies are buried amid whispers during the day and the nights resound with the shots of rival gangs, Cécé knows that to survive you have to invent the present every second.   On Facebook, she's 'Ce?cé la Flamme' and her followers are skyrocketing. She posts pictures of her feet, her food, make-up, the dead bodies in the street, arguing with anyone who wants a fight.   Suddenly she's getting attention from the ruling gang boss, and even American journalists want her working for them. In the noise of the Cite?, Ce?ce takes cash wherever she can to care for her aging uncle ­- but her growing fame can turn from power to danger in an instant.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695172460917,"sku":"9781807760298","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-emmelie-prophete.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}