Popa Singer

The latest novel by one of Haitis most brilliant writers The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Ren Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule. To celebrate her sons return home after years of exile, Diana Fontoriol (aka Popa Singer)an indomitable mother armed only with her sewing machine and her personal convictionsdetermines to resist in her own way the infamous Ubu King of the Tropics: Franois Papa Doc Duvalier. Depestres novel tells the story of this at once intimate and epic struggle. Combining colorful fantasy and biting social satire, it is a deeply personal and singularly artistic take on an infamous chapter in Haitian history.