When a mother and her infant are murdered on the outskirts of Cité Soleil, Haiti’s most infamous slum, two unexpected detectives emerge: Libète, a brash and headstrong girl of ten, and her brilliant but impoverished friend Jak.

Though made rough-and-tumble on the slum’s streets where gangs, police and UN peacekeepers have long battled for control, the murders stir Libète unlike anything she’s seen before. With the dead quickly forgotten as the community limps on in its grinding struggle to survive, Libète resolves to pursue the truth despite the costs, plunging headfirst into an insidious plot that will threaten her and everything she holds dear.

A profound journey set against the calamitous backdrop of modern-day Haiti, join Libète as she struggles to find herself and justice in an unjust world in Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti.

A NONPROFIT NOVEL TO BENEFIT HAITI, net proceeds from all sales are donated to development and human rights advocacy organizations in Haiti. These organizations include the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti/Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, Fonkoze, Haiti Partners, Other Worlds, and Zafèn.

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