The collection brings us to attention in two ways.
Ayiti offers the reader a more nuanced perspective of Haiti than the simplistic view that the easily accessible TV news and Internet tend to provide. 'Throughout Ayiti, Gay surely doesn’t paint an overly optimistic image of Haiti, but she offers an honest one, an image of Haiti that is alive and breathing, not static and doomed. Roxane Gay's story collection Ayiti is filled with powerful depictions of Haiti and its residents, and is an auspicious debut for this talented author. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, David Peace, Myla Goldberg, and many others. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Below is her 2012 Book Notes playlist for the book.
Grove Press published a new edition of Roxane Gay's collection Ayiti this week with two previously unpublished stories.
