The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Tom Harrington, a lawyer who did humanitarian work in Haiti after the fall of its dictatorship, has gone home to his family in Florida. Then an investigator comes to him on behalf of a man charged with killing his wife, the woman Tom knew in Haiti as Jackie: an elusive journalist he once brought to a vodou priest in the hope of having her soul restored. Her death unlocks a story spread over fifty years and four countries, from her father's boyhood in German-occupied Croatia and her own adolescence as the daughter of an American diplomat in Cold War Istanbul to the soldiers and intelligence men, tied to her by family or by choice, who served American power before September 2001.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Haiti, Croatia, Türkiye, United States

First published

2013

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9780802119827 (Atlantic Monthly Press, United States)

9780802122759 (Grove Press, United States)