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One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Vulture * This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality * "Impossible to stop reading" - Vulture. When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York Citys South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay - "my mothers house" - and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesnt, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. . What he cant begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Luciens ultimate evil.