Les Cayes, Haiti: A Memoir

In this touching memoir of a tumultuous childhood, author Lyonel Gerdes shares his experience of overcoming a rough family life.

Lyonel Gerdes was born in Haiti, where he lived with his family in the titular town of Les Cayes. Over the years, the family moved from house to house, leaving Gerdes with a mixed bag of good and bad memories. Growing up in unstable homes, Gerdes soon developed multiple insecurities and feelings of unworthiness. But when the country descended into social, political, and economic chaos under the dictatorship of Duvalier, the family’s internal drama intensified.

Les Cayes, Haiti offers an intimate and unflinching look at one survivor’s journey in this true story of overcoming childhood trauma.