ke). The novel unfolds in five sections. In the first, Shacochis returns to what he once called the boneyard carnival that was Haiti. His narrator, Tom Harrington, a journalist turned human rights lawyer, hopes to create a truth commission in the postfunctional Haiti of the late 1990s.
Ev, whom Tom Harrington had introduced to Jackie Scott in 1996, takes the lead in Shacochiss narrative now. In a daring maneuver, the author replays the murder that opens the novel, retracing steps, making connections, revealing a covert operation involving drug dealing and zombies.