haitian american families

At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.

New Orleans college student Leslie Beaudet, tormented by family problems and a violent incident from the past, snaps when she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her with a waitress, and turns to the practice of voodoo to help rid herself of her problems.

New Orleans college student Leslie Beaudet, tormented by family problems and a violent incident from the past, snaps when she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her with a waitress, and turns to the practice of voodoo to help rid herself of her problems.

Chronicles the history of Haiti and the efforts of one Haitian family to emigrate to the United States and rebuild their lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.