“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times

The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.

Gwen Petersen earlier enlightened us on the joys of shoveling manure. Now, in this delightful new collection of pithy and hilarious essays, she explains how her

Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region�

The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with this collection of tales about life on the fringe of the Western