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Madame Dread

A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti

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By Kathie Klarreich

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Kathie Klarreich, a white Jewish girl from the West Coast, arrived in Haiti as a naï twenty-something in the late 1980s. There she worked for a fair trade organization. Weeks became months, and months became years, as Klarreich, despite the spiraling political violence, became enthralled by the island, its lifestyle and traditions, to the extent that she started to grow dreads, attend Voodoo masses and started to file reports for the Christian Science Monitor and its attendant radio station. Klarreich saw civil violence, mass slaughter, coups, and U.S. intervention all up-close, and on a daily basis as a reporter. Often risking life and limb, accused of being a CIA agent by her enemies, she lost a man she loved due to an assassin’s bullet — but she established credentials, contacts and developed an unsparing eye that led major news organizations such as The New York Times, ABC, CNN, Fresh Air and Time magazine to regard her as nonpareil throughout the turbulent decade. This compelling memoir interweaves shattering political events with an intensely personal narrative about the Haitian musician Klarreich eventually marries (and has a child with), who turns out to be as enthralling and complicated as the political events she covered.

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On Sale
Aug 23, 2005
Page Count
368 pages
Publisher
Bold Type Books
ISBN-13
9781560257806

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Kathie Klarreich

About the Author

Kathie Klarreich lives in Florida. As a reporter based in Haiti she reported for the Christian Science Monitor, NPR Fresh Air, All Things Considered, US News and World Report, Time Magazine, Miami Herald, and the New York Times.

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