A review by scorpstar77
Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse

4.0

Drifting is a collection of interconnected tales about fictional Haitians and Haitian-Americans spanning several decades and all walks of life. There is hardship and laughter and love and sorrow and superstition and abuse and hard work on nearly every page - it runs the gamut of human experience, but from a uniquely Haitian point of view. I don't know much about Haiti or about the Haitian culture, but considering the author is a Haitian-American who lived in Haiti until her teen years, I trust the source. She exposes a rich and interesting culture in her stories, and I was fascinated from the first page. Several of my favorite characters didn't have happy endings in the book, and my brain has continued to try to think of what may have happened to these characters after the curtains closed on their story in the book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this!