Summary: Mireille Duval Jameson is visiting her native Haiti with her husband and infant son when she is kidnapped from in front of her parents’ home. She’s repeatedly beaten and sexually assaulted by her captors, who resent her family’s wealth in that very poor country. The novel follows Mireille as she waits for her father to pay the ransom, which he refuses to do, and traces the changes that her kidnapping brings about in her life.
