In 1940s Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendshipuntil a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After Franois Duvaliers rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal success and failures, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship. Finally, six decades later, with both women in the United States, a sudden phone call brings them back together once more to reckon with andperhapsforgive the past.

Told with power and frankness,Village Weaversconfronts the silences around class, race, and nationality, charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart, and envisions two girlsconnected their entire liveswho try to break inherited cycles of mistrust and find ways back into each others hearts.

Myriam J. A. Chancyis the author ofWhat Storm, What Thunder, awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and named a best book of the year byNPR,Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, theBoston Globe, and theGlobeandMail. Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award;The Scorpion’s Claw; andSpirit of Haiti, short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in California.

• Publisher:Tin House Books
• Publish Date:April 29, 2025
• Pages:352
• Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 inches | 0.81 pounds
• Language:English
• Type:Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781963108071
• BISAC Categories: Literary, Family Life – General, Friendship, World Literature – Caribbean & West Indies