ASIN: B00AULJOB0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 421
Lawrence flies to Haiti with the plan of making his leather satchels and handbags, after reading in the New York Times that under Duvalier’s young heir foreigners are being encouraged to set up businesses there, using the cheap local labour. In the next seat is a churchman from Indianapolis who suggests he set up shop on a missionary outpost in the south, where he will be given a disused Red Cross station to live in and install a crafts factory, as long as teaches the local peasants a trade. Soon Lawrence has hired four former sugar cane cutters and two unemployed tailors, as well as a charming housekeeper, a protégée of the Episcopalian church, charged by the Haitian mission priest with caring for Monsieur Laurent "as if he is your husband", which Sophilia does with almost excessive zeal... Lawrence learns to speak creole with gusto, setting out every afternoon on his small white horse ...
