Bain de lune

Prix Femina-winning novel following three generations of the Lafleur family in the coastal Haitian village of Anse Bleue, narrated from multiple temporal layers with the voices of the living, the dead, and the lwa woven into a single fabric. Lahens refuses Western realism as an adequate form for Haitian experience — vodou cosmology organizes the narrative's logic of time, causality, and the relationship between the living and the dead — while tracing how land dispossession, sexual violence, and the gendered mechanisms of political terror fall first and most heavily on women's bodies across generations.