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The daring, eagerly anticipated second novel with the National Booklet Award-nominated author of Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski's first book, Fieldwork, was printed in 2007 to rave reviews - Hilary Mantel called it "a quirky, often amazing debut" and Stephen Ruler said it was "a tale that cooks just like a mother" - and it was a finalist for the Country wide Book Award. Now Berlinski results with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and fatality in the world's most interesting country: Haiti. When Terry White, a past deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he requires a job working for the UN, assisting to educate the Haitian police. He's sent to the distant town of Jérémie, where there tend to be coffin producers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt and grime roads all slope down eventually to the postcard sea. Terry is embroiled in the town's complicated politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming, American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard within an upcoming election. But when Terry falls deeply in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become disaster. Tense, atmospheric, securely plotted, and incredibly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski's items as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the globe that is as exciting as it is misunderstood - and calls for us into the depths of the individual soul, where the thirst for electric power and the necessity for love can overrun common sense and morality.
