The Diaspora

About the Book

The news of their arrival was a very pleasant surprise for Charles who longed to be reunited with his childhood neighbors. The family landed at Lansing airport in two Northwest Airlines planes between 7:00 and 9:00 P.M. a far distance from Port-au-Prince. The winter season was fast approaching that presented an enormous challenge for the Garderes to acclimate themselves to the cold weather with the exception of the eldest Ketly who had attended college on a scholarship to Harvard. She was a brilliant student who exemplified the character of this immigrant family. Upon graduation in 1965 Ketly had returned to her native land to marry her teenage sweetheart.She, her husband and three children would join the entire family in 1975. These ambitious members of the Diaspora would make their mark in the years to come.

About the Author

Jean M. Dorsinville, author of Honor Thy Father/An Awakening and Franklin Seales/Life of an Artist, is a retired businessman, like many of his generation, is a member of the Haitian Diaspora who left the Motherland in the mid fi fties to join his parents in New York where his father was named his country’s ambassador to the United Nations. His formative years were spent at the College de Saint Laurent in Montreal under the aegis of the Holy Cross Fathers. His undergraduate studies followed at New York University where he earned a degree in Economics. After graduation, he married Vincentian born Leslie B. Seales in 1965 and are proud parents of Natasha and Dimitri, and grandparents of twins, boy and girl, Nadia and Benjamin IV.