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When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke during the Great Recession, he takes a job training the Haitian police for the United Nations. Heâs sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the townâs complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. But when Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.
Edgy, daring, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski's far-reaching gifts as a novelist. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstoodâand takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.
About: THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDâNOMINATED AUTHOR OF FIELDWORKMischa Berlinskiâs first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviewsâHilary Mantel called it âa quirky, often brilliant debutâ and Stephen King said it was âa story that cooks like a motherââand it was a finalist for the National Book Award.
About: When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke during the Great Recession, he takes a job training the Haitian police for the United Nations.
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