Our poorest neighbour: is there reason to hope for a better future for Haiti?(Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State)(Book review) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State Yasmine Shamsie and Andrew S. Thompson, editors Wilfrid Laurier University Press 150 pages, softcover ISBN 9780889205109

Haiti is a poor little place that tugs at the heartstrings. Countless other countries--in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Central America--are also poverty stricken, violent and fragile; their misery blurs across our television screens every day and many hands are briefly wrung. Haiti, on the other hand, is less known to Canadians--at least outside Montreal. But for those who have had occasion to take an interest, Haiti, by ...

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