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Title: an important revisitation
Review: The first thing about this book that is important to know, is that it is of the sort that is impossible to be put down, once opened. It captures the reader. More importantly, for those who don't know about Haiti in the past or present, it captures a period that is essential to understand. The book conveys the barbarity of a time before Jean Bertrand Aristide came to power. After coming to power, he was soon ousted. The state sanctioned horror of that time comes alive through the author's travails. It also serves in giving us an understanding of the character of the man that became the center piece of history in the last fifteen years in her personal interaction with the former president in ways no author has. Neither avidly for or against we gain a portrait of the man that is true to the author's experience, and true to the man giving us insights into his wild popularity, as well as his fallability.
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