My Mother's House

A Novel

De: Francesca Momplaisir

Narrado por: Karen Chilton, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham

One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture • This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality • “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture

When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City’s South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mother’s house”—and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn’t, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness.

What he can’t begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien’s ultimate evil.

©2020 Francesca Momplaisir (P)2020 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

One of Vulture's 10 Best Books of 2020
One of Harper's Bazaar's Best Books of 2020
One of Elle's "63 Best Books of 2020"
One of USA Today's "100 Black Novelists and Fiction Writers You Should Read"
One of The Haitian Times' "Ten Books Every Haitian-American Should Have on Their Holiday Wishlist"
One of O Magazine's "28 of the Best Books to Transport You This Summer, Written By Women Around the World"

One of Vogue's "41 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020”
One of Paste Magazine's "25 Most Anticipated Novels of 2020"

“This is the America of opportunity, with one wave of immigrants replacing another as they climb higher on the ladder of success, but Momplaisir skillfully reveals why this ladder is missing a few rungs . . . A needed contribution to this difficult conversation.” —Stephanie Powell Watts, The New York Times Book Review

“A torrential, Faulkneresque tale of evil and love among multiple generations of Haitian immigrants living in New York. The most hard-core novel of the year."
—Vulture, "The 10 Best Books of 2020"

oh my GOD

brutal, smart, beautiful and tragic. the narration was amazing. the story... was a punch in the gut. not for the faint of heart.

Loved it ❤️

The performances were outstanding. The story was original and the characters well developed.
Highly recommend

it was different.

the beginning and first Parr of the middle had my attention. the middle became too m7ch fluff and the ending made me mad I stuck with it.

Still processing...

This is such a sad and disturbing story. I don't normally read these kinds of book. I like getting the point of view of the house though.