The Company of Heaven : Stories from Haiti

from chelseagirl

Short stories, some interrelated, by a Haitian visual artist and poet. The most interesting thing about the collection is the class perspective -- the stories feature wealthy families as well as poverty-stricken ones, and there are some interesting examinations of the interrelationship between cl...

from kidzdoc

This collection of short stories about the lives of contemporary Haitians was awarded the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Several of the stories are good, especially "Dogs", in which an elderly woman keeps an unruly group of wild dogs who she favors over humans, and "Marie-Ange's Ginnen", an accou...

from sacredstacks

I was offered this opportunity to read and review The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, 2010 recipient of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Having read, enjoyed, and reviewed Krik? Krak! and The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat, I was excited about the in...

from IsolaBlue

Discovering a new writer from Haiti is always a cultural thrill. Edwidge Danticat and Dany Leferriere, mainstays of Haitian literature, now have a new writer joining their ranks. Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell gives us a Haiti that is, simultaneously, both similar to and very different from the Haiti...

from kristykay22

An evocative and often lyrical collection of short stories set in Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell's native Haiti. The author is also a painter and a poet, and these pursuits definitely influence her short story writing. Some of the stories loosely interconnect, with characters and places brushing agai...