Light Beneath Ashes by Boaz Anglade

A striking reflection on modern Haitian history, the diaspora experience, and the emotional confusion of emigration, Light Beneath Ashes by Boaz Anglade is a stirring memoir pulled from the beating heart of a fractured nation. From his earliest encounters with violence, poverty, and desperate flight to America, which reveals its own level of dystopia in the Sunshine State, this first-person account exposes the bewildering reality of immigrant life, and the existential terror of feeling the essence of your homeland shift beneath your feet. Exploring the complexities of class, assimilation, otherness, and resilience, this is a compelling and heartfelt testament to one man’s endless adaptation and hard-won redemption.