Maps Are Lines We Draw

A Road Trip Through Haiti

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Pub Date 20 Mar 2018 | Archive Date 15 Jun 2018

Description

"To escape this rocking weight, all I had to do—I thought—was draw my line."

After a decade of dreaming, Allison Coffelt arrived in Haiti, ready—she thought—"to learn how much she didn’t know" about the Caribbean nation. Traveling the highways with Dr. Jean Gardy Marius, founder of the public health organization OSAPO, she embarked on a life-changing journey that would weave Haiti’s proud, tumultuous history and present reality into her life forever.

Maps Are Lines We Draw explores the culture and natural beauty of the island as well as its discomfiting realities: the threat well-intentioned aid organizations can present to the local economy; the privilege that determines who gets to travel between a "here" and a distant "there" which is foreign and other; and the challenge of doing short-term good without creating long-lasting harm.   

"To escape this rocking weight, all I had to do—I thought—was draw my line."

After a decade of dreaming, Allison Coffelt arrived in Haiti, ready—she thought—"to learn how much she didn’t know" about...


Advance Praise

"Pick up this book if you've never read anything about Haiti or if you've read everything about Haiti; Maps are Lines we Draw forges a new path."

- Jen Hirt, author of Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees

"Carefully researched and humbly told, Coffelt’s memoir is a trip well worth taking."

- Joni Tevis, author of The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse

"With her striking debut, Maps Are Lines We Draw, Allison Coffelt weaves an eloquent collage of history and place, politics and policy, inquiry and knowledge. The lines that mark the boundaries between here and there are removed to reveal a complex Haiti, then redrawn to assemble an even more complex notion of aid."

- Angela Palm, author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here

"Pick up this book if you've never read anything about Haiti or if you've read everything about Haiti; Maps are Lines we Draw forges a new path."

- Jen Hirt, author of Under Glass: The Girl with a...


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ISBN 9781941360149
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