Bob Shacochis (Eastern Caribbean 1975-76) is Back with a Big Book
Looking forward to reading it! Just wrote the title down in my notebook for future reference. Love Bob and his…
Winner in 1986 of the National Book Award Bob Shacochis’s (Eastern Caribbean 1975-76) first book in ten years spans five decades and three continents. According to the pre-press on the novel, “it is an epic, visceral masterwork that traces a global lineage of political, cultural, and personal tumult from WWII to September 11th.”
In The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti and writes a novel about coming of age in a pre 9-11 world. 
Traveling from World War II Dubrovnik-the violent terrain of bandits and madmen-to an exquisitely rendered Istanbul in the 1980s, Shacochis brandishes Jackie’s shadowy family history with daring agility. At just fifteen, caught between her first love and the unsavory attentions of her father, an elite spy and quintessential Cold War warrior pressuring Jackie to follow in his footsteps, a desperate escape plan goes horribly wrong and sets Jackie on course to becoming the soulless woman Tom equally feared and desired.”
The novel covers fifty years and four countries. It is Shacochis’ magnum opus that gives us an “intricate portrait of catastrophic events” that led up to the War on Terror and the America we live in today.
The novel, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, comes out next fall.
I’m putting it on the calendar, and will be one of the first to buy it. I love Bob’s work.
BTW, his Foreword in my book about Haiti, “In the Valley of Atibon,” is brilliant. (amazon.com) He’s my guru.
Leita
Looking forward to reading it! Just wrote the title down in my notebook for future reference. Love Bob and his writing.
always.