Hurricane Between Island Kisses

By Cathy Delaleu

Set in Haiti in 1987, shortly after President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is exiled, Hurricane Between Island Kisses is the first-person narrative of Sagine Koussaint, who blames the political in her native Haiti for the horrible twist and turns of her life. After her father's abduction, Sagine, at the age of seventeen, is burdened with financially supporting her family. Out of desperation, her mother sends her away to work as a housemaid in California for her half-sister, Nadeige. In Malibu, California, where Sagine experiences verbal abuse from her sister, all the while suppressing a burning love for Nadeige's fianc?. After Sagine is sent back to Haiti by her jealous half-sister, Sagine's dying mother arranges for her daughter to marry a former army lieutenant three times her age to save the family from poverty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451542720
• ISBN13: 9781451542721
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"