God Loves Haiti

Dimitry Elias Léger. God Loves Haiti. New York. HarperCollins / Amistad. 2015. isbn 9780062348135

In his debut novel, God Loves Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger uses the 2010 earthquake in Haiti as the backdrop for a love triangle. A flaccid, fictionalized president-"the President"-and his much-younger, philandering wife-Natasha-are about to board a plane supplied by the United States government that will fly the newly wed couple to Florence to live lives of lavish, chosen exile. The latter's lover, Alain, is locked in her closet in the National Palace and realizes he has been dumped.

After the thirty-five-second goudougoudou, the three are separated and spend the rest of the novel on their own journeys of self-discovery. The president, once an...