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Ayiti by Roxane Gay

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vyhurz's review

4.0

Many of these stories are brutal, and I believe all of them are shockingly explicit. It's amazing how Gay can write so plainly, to just lay the truth bare. It's hard to look at. I love everything she's written. The only thing that saddens me is that every story was about pain, and perhaps finding some small pleasure in that pain. I would have loved one story that focused on joy or pride in Haiti rather than just enending pain.

jess_mango's review against another edition

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4.0

Ayiti (which is the Creole word for Haiti) is a stunning short story collection By Roxane Gay. The stories focus on Haitian immigrants in the US and Haitians still living in Haiti. The stories are often raw and disturbing as they portray the hardships that the characters are going through.

dinasamimi's review

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5.0

Really loved this. This is a good collection, but a few were standouts: Sweet on the Tongue and In the Manner of Water or Light were so excellent and heartbreaking.

readingafrica's review

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2.0

This collection of short stories was 'ok'. It narrated experiences in the Haitian diaspora, from the US immigrant experience to life in rural Haiti. There were tales of love, loss, and trauma. The stories were pretty inconsistent. I liked some a lot more than others, and none of them were particularly memorable except "Sweet on the Tongue".