Lavil

"A book about choosing to live and not to die, to fight, to survive, to thrive." --Edwidge Danticat "Nothing is more eloquent than the voice of those who endure and try valiantly to survive." --Noam Chomsky "Lavil brings to the fore the voices of the people of the wounded city of Port-au-Prince ... these stories are redolent of both pride and fears of an uncertain future." --Paul Farmer, author, Haiti After the Earthquake "Lavil is a powerful collection of testimonies, which include tales of violence, poverty, and instability but also joy, hustle, and the indomitable will to survive." --Vice "To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one's habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away."-George Saunders "[Voice of Witness] books are amazing...beautifully produced, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I've seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you." -Rachel Maddow "In a time when history is told in cheap television re-enactments, if at all, and personal tragedy is gobbled up in rapidly digestible magazine photos and reality shows, this project goes against the grain." -Guardian "The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for [America's] most marginalized voices." -Van Jones, former special advisor to the Obama White House, author of Rebuilding the Dream and The Green Collar Economy "Lavil brings to the fore the voices of the people of the wounded city of Port-au-Prince ... these stories are redolent of both pride and fears of an uncertain future." -Paul Farmer, author, Haiti After the Earthquake"Nothing is more eloquent than the voice of those who endure and try valiantly to survive." -Noam Chomsky "Lavil is not just a recitation of complaint and tragedy, though those are certainly included within it. It provides, instead, a chorus of stubborn and lively persistence — of a kind one can usually only imagine." Los Angeles Review of Books