Part of Your World is a spicy brew: a former sex slave looking for freedom, an unnamed island nation run by commandos and military contractors, new revelations of the machinations that led to the fall from power of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the meaning of belonging-and not belonging-in today's toxic world. An original and fascinating novel that explores Haiti, Florida, private armies, geo-politics and the frail humans who are caught up in it all.
John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8 and The Last Six Million Seconds
Part of Your World uncovers a part of our world that seldom finds its way into literary fiction. Jaw-dropping, soul-searching, painfully raw writing and superb storytelling, this is a novel you won't be able to put down. Beyond riveting. A book that will haunt you and characters you will never forget. Gabrielle Chavela needs to be brought out of her literary closet and celebrated by readers everywhere.
Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies and A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship
Part of Your World is an absorbing thriller charged with the mystery of its home islands. Consistently exciting, highly readable, authentic and suspenseful, it proceeds on the pulses, and in its pages political combat is matched with struggles that are spiritual and psychological as well. An agent operating in a deadly world of drugs and violence is forced to put his young child at risk. It's a story that will hold readers fast.
Robert Stone, author of Dog Soldiers, Children of Light and Fun With Problems.
Eva is a woman as stealthy, as soothing, as beguiling as a warm breeze. It's a good cover, assuming the invisibility of the wind, one that allows her to slip in and out of the identities she needs to stay alive: nanny, hacker, college student. But is it safety that Eva wants, or revenge? And what if they turn out to be the same thing?
Bracing, sexy, frightening, cinematic and wise, Part of Your World will change the way you see the politics of island nations and the influence of the American military machine.
