AVAILABLE FROM ALONDRA PRESS

ISLAND JOURNEYS:
EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF FRANCE
A Collection of Travel Essays by Patti M. Marxsen

Many of us have a passion for islands, for the space around them, for the sound of water, for the sense of being away from the chaos of the modern world. But islands are not simply escapes... they are complex places steeped in culture and history. These essays explore seven islands in multiple dimensions.

Table of Contents

Ile de la Cite: The Island at the Center of the World

Lost in a Dream with Gauguin

Notes on Migration from the Isle of Death

Haiti’s Heavenly Waters

Rousseau’s Refuge

In Search of Lambaréné

Epilogue for an Emperor

A FEW WORDS FOR HAITI
ISLAND JOURNEYS RAISES MONEY FOR HAITI
Twenty complimentary copies of "Island Journeys" were recently made available to members of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as a means of raising funds for the "sister parish" of St. Thomas in Arcahaie, Haiti. Parish members enthusiastically purchased the books, which raised over $200 for an infrastructure project. Mesi anpil!

ARTICLE SELECTED FOR ANTHOLOGY
“The Map Within: Place, Displacement, and the Long Shadow of History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat” by Patti M. Marxsen, first published in the Journal of Haitian Studies (Fall 2005), has been selected for the anthology, "Beyond Revolution: 200 years of Haitian History and Culture," forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2009.

WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS
Later this year, Patti Marxsen will be reviewing the first English translation of Marie Chauvet's "Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy" for the Women's Review of Books. Chauvet's novel was first published by Gallimard in 1968, but repressed by members of her family who feared the Duvalier regime. It was republished in France in 2005 and will soon be available from Modern Library, with an English translation by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur.