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My Mother's House

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My Mother's House

By: Francesca Momplaisir
Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham
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One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture • This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality • “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture

When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City’s South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mother’s house”—and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn’t, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness.

What he can’t begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien’s ultimate evil. Magical Realism Literary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Fantasy World Literature Magic Historical Fiction

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brutal, smart, beautiful and tragic. the narration was amazing. the story... was a punch in the gut. not for the faint of heart.

oh my GOD

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I wanted to know what happened to Lucien . I wanted to know if he would escape or lay the consequences of his actions

I enjoyed the narrative

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The performances were outstanding. The story was original and the characters well developed.
Highly recommend

Loved it ❤️

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the beginning and first Parr of the middle had my attention. the middle became too m7ch fluff and the ending made me mad I stuck with it.

it was different.

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This is such a sad and disturbing story. I don't normally read these kinds of book. I like getting the point of view of the house though.

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