When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.