{"product_id":"cece-paperback","title":"Cécé - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmmelie Prophète\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAidan Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written.\" --Dany Laferrière\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCécé La Flamme, as she's known by her loyal Facebook friends, captures photographs of still bodies. Figures scorched and bruised, left to the rubble of the Cité of Divine Power. When she posts an image of a corpse, Cécé's followers skyrocket. \"Nothing got more attention than a good corpse that was nice and warm or already rotting.\" Just beside visions of rot and neglect, she posts pictures of her toes, gullies crisscrossing the cité, and her own lips painted blue. With every image, Cécé seeks control and wants to create a frank, intimate record of the terror in her cité. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCécé's world begins and ends with the cité - a slum peopled by gangs, yelping kids, grandmothers, junkies, and preachers. The very gate that encloses the cité was constructed by militant gang members. First boss Freddy, then Joël, then Jules César rule the gang that holds the cité in a chokehold. Sharp, sincere, and desperate, Cécé cleaves life for herself out of social media, sex work, and attempts at friendship with other women. When an American journalist offers to buy the rights to Cécé's photographs, she demands double the cash. When an abusive former client dies, she wears hot pink to his funeral. Emmelie Prophète's novel is fierce, devastating, and suggestive - a record of a woman clawing back control.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmelie Prophète\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1971, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the author of two poetry collections and six novels, the first of which\u003ci\u003e, Les Testaments de Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Association des écrivains de langue française. Prophète's most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eLes Villages de Dieu\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the Prix FetKann Maryse Condé, a prize that recognizes literature promoting human dignity from the largely postcolonial global South. Prophète is the former director of the National Library of Haiti, and is now a cultural curator in Port-au-Prince. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAidan Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1965, Monaghan, Ireland) is a teacher at Thayer Academy in Massachusetts, USA. Rooney's poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eGo There\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Tightrope\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDay Release. \u003c\/i\u003eHis translations from Haitian Kreyòl and French can be read elsewhere at \u003ci\u003eAGNI, Asymptote, Carte Blanche, Tanbou\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in print in \u003ci\u003eNew American Writing #39\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include the Sunday Tribune \/ Hennessy Cognac Award for New Irish Poetry and the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 5.59 x 6.77 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43482747371655,"sku":"9781962770415","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/M1kdRVPqoT9781962770415.webp?v=1763380305","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cece-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}