**For fans of Kate Atkinson, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Edwidge Danticat, Tana French, Mohsin Hamid, Hari Kunzru, Imbolo Mbue, Alex Michaelides, and Jesmyn Ward
A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one personβs damages can have on the lives of othersβtold unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors**
When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York Cityβs South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a rundown house in a community that is quickly changing from an Italian enclave of mobsters to a haven for Haitian immigrants, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kayββmy motherβs houseββand it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesnβt, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. What he canβt even begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucienβs ultimate evil.
At once an uncompromising look at the immigrant experience and an electrifying page-turner,My Motherβs Houseis a singular, unforgettable achievement.