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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2024 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR''S CHOICE
WASHINGTON POST BEST FICTION OF 2023 From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti
An engrossing, psychologically complex and politically astute novel. The New York Times
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaosand others are just looking to make it through another day.
Desperate for moneyand survivalMatt teams up with his best friend and business
