Winner · Michael L. Printz Award 2013
In Darkness
by Nick Lake
2012 young adult novel by Nick Lake
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- young adult fiction
- Pages
- 341
- ISBN
- 9781408824184
- Subjects
- History, Gangs, Juvenile fiction, Violence, Survival, Fiction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010, Brothers and sisters
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