Haiti
by Frances Temple
In the hospital after being beaten,
seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his
impoverished life to a young woman who, like him,
has been working with the social reformer Father
Aristide to fight repression in Haiti.
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by Frances Temple
As governmental brutality and poverty become
unbearable, Paulie joins with others in her small
Haitian village to help her uncle secretly build a
boat they will use to try to escape to the United
States.
