Joseph, Uncle, 21, 23-27, 29-30, 35, 37, 154-55
Katrina, Hurricane, 108-10, 113
Kedar, Daniel, 146-47
Kennedy, John F., 141
Kipling, Rudyard, 15
Kocache, Moukhtar, 125
Koinange, Jeff, 109
Labuchin, Rassoul,
Laferriere, Dany, 160-62
La Fontaine, Jean de, 60
LaGuardia Airport, New York City, 119-20
Lalanne, Jean Wilner, 54
Lawrence, D. H.,
Legba, 129-30, 132-34
Leogane, Haiti, 21-40, 154, 169-70
Leroy, Felix Morisseau, 10
“Tourist,” 145
Liberia, 99
Lincoln, Abraham, 99
Lope de Vega, Felix, 15
Louisiana Purchase, 99
Louissaint, Jean Claude, 51, 53, 54
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 97, 101-4, 132-33, 164
magic realism, 103
Makandal, 101
Malary, Guy, 46, 48
Mallarme, Stephane, 95
Mandelstam, Osip, 10, 11
Manuel (fictional character), 45-46
Marius (cousin), 87-95
Maxime Dantica, 163, 166
Maxo Dantica, 11, 21, 153-56, 170-73
memory, 63-65
mercenary artists, 144
Miami, 87-91, 155
Midnight Oil, 87
Miller, Marc, 127-28, 135
Monica Dantica, 163, 166-67
Montas, Michele, 41, 47, 51-58
Morel, Daniel, 137-51
Morrison, Toni, 10, 17, 84
Morse, Richard, 168
Nan (film character), 84
national palace, Port-au-Prince, 42, 164-165
NC (“Naomi Campbell”) [cousin], 157, 167-69
Neptune, Dolores Dominique, 159
New Orleans, 108-110
Nick Dantica, 21-26, 28-29, 35, 37, 163
Noel, Ti, 101-2
Nozial, 156, 157, 171, 172
Numa, Marcel, 1-8, 12-14, 20, 44, 63, 137-41, 148-50
Numa, Nono, 6
O’Brien, Soledad, 109
Ogoun, 71, 103, 104, 129, 133
Orchestre Septentrional d’Haiti, 143-44
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 141
Pascal, Blaise, 60
Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, 120
Pedro, Sophia, 108
Peters, Dewitt, 128-29
photography, 138-51
Picasso, Pablo,
Pickering, Timothy, 98-99
Port-au-Prince, 158, 163-65
poverty, in the United States, 110-11, 113
Preval, Rene, 54, 55
Prometheus, 55
Proust, Marcel, 71
Rabelais, Francois, 60
Racine, Jean, 60
Radio Haiti Inter, 41-43, 45, 50, 54-55, 58
readers and reading: dangers of, 8-11
experience of, 16
in Haiti, 8-9, 11, 59-61, 65
real marvelous, 103
Regan, Jane, 144
Rejouis, Rose-Myriam, 68
Resnais, Alain,
revolution, 97-105
Richards, Michael, 123-26
Robinson, Randall, 83
Rodman, Selden, 129, 131
Roumain, Jacques, 15