In Darkness

Join us as we celebrate Haiti Heritage Month with Nick Lake. A first chapter reading of his award-winning book In Darkness. Based on actual events, In Darkness is a historical fiction about a boy trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake: thirsty, terrified, and alone. 'Shorty' is a child of the slums, a teenage boy, who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Soleil: men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret, a flame of revenge that blazes inside him and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost five years ago. He is marked. Marked in a way that links him with Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian rebel, who two-hundred years ago led the slave revolt and faced down Napoleon to force the French out of Haiti.