![]() Both men are determined to change their lives - Toussaint is driven by a need to free himself and others from slavery, and Shorty by a need to find his sister, kidnapped in a gang attack that killed his father. And before long, Toussaint starts to dream of a boy trapped beneath rubble in a future Haiti. Trapped under the rubble, Shorty starts to dream and hallucinate about the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture, a slave turned revolutionary living in Haiti 200 years ago. It's also gritty and honest, and takes an often brutal look at what life in Haiti is like for a boy as he grows up. The voice is contemporary, easy to relate to. The story of Shorty, a fifteen year-old boy buried beneath rubble following the 2010 Haitian earthquake, this book doesn't pull any punches. ![]()
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