Monroe Free Library

Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family...

"In the title piece, "East of Haiti," Old Jean Morisseau waits for his son Claude, who he hasn't seen in ten years, and worries about his grandson Christopher, whose mother-like so many others-crossed the border into the neighboring country and disappeared. As the boy grows, he begins to read his missing father's diary. And one day, he gathers his courage and leaves his grandfather and their small village to find his dad. Sánchez Beras paints stirring...