Tucked high in the Jamaica Blue Mountains is Top Valley, home to twelve-year-old twins: the sharp-eyed (and sharp-mouthed) Pollyread Gilmore and her brother, Jackson, who's always up for (and in) trouble.
But the twins aren't going to have to look too hard for mischief: The town jailbird named Jammy is back and for some reason he's targeting the Gilmore family. With the twins' mother sick and their father distracted, it's up to Jackson and Pollyread to take on Jammy and keep their family strong.
About the Author
Martin Mordecai has led many lives: civil servant, diplomat, journalist, radio and television director, publisher, book distributor, and through it all, husband and father. While acting out these various incarnations he has scribbled out stories, poems, magazine articles and now, Blue Mountain Trouble, his first novel.
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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.
About the Author
Ted Oswald is a public interest lawyer living in Philadelphia with his wife Katharine. Written while living in Haiti, after taking the bar exam and before his new job as an attorney, Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti is Ted's first foray into fiction.
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