This Land Is Mine

About the Book

About the Author

Author Jeanne Lucchesi was born and raised in Haiti where she earned

Bachelor's degrees in Liberal Arts and Philosophy from St. Rose De Lima in

Port-au-Prince.  After her marriage and the birth of their first child,

Jeanne was forced to flee to the United States when the private militia

knocked at their door, during the dark period of President Duvalier.

Jeanne arrived in the United States on the week of the assassination of

President John F. Kennedy.  She was tremendously shaken, realizing that no

place was free of violence.

Residing in New York, she continued her education, at Pace University, while

raising two children and eventually found employment as a bookkeeper.  Years

later she developed a severe back problem that limited her physical

activities and lead her to a premature retirement.  At that point, Jeanne

began writing.

In "The Dangerous Ties," she writes about a young and candid Haitian girl who

discovers her first love miles away from her sheltered way of life.  That

love throws her into a whirlpool of circumstances and she finds herself

caught in a web of political intrigues against the Duvalier regime.  When her

lover gets betrayed and killed by the regime, she takes on the cause  and

becomes an active revolutionary agent.

Mrs. Lucchesi has had several poems published and has won writing contest.  

This is her first novel.