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I Shall Find You: An Evening with Micki Berthelot Morency
I Shall Find You is a story about the strength of a mother's love in the face of betrayal and the quest of a child to find the missing links to complete the circle of her life.
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In July 1980, seventeen-year-old Ketly was forced to leave her newborn daughter, Juliette, on the doorstep of a small clinic in a Haitian village with a heartfelt note. A whisper of a promise she hoped would one day bridge the chasm between them.
Marge, an American nurse on a mission to Haiti, found the abandoned infant and renamed her Adele through adoption while she locked away the note, a fragile secret that bound her to Ketly in ways she could not have imagined.
As the years go by, Ketly's heart never stops weeping for the daughter she was forced to give up, while she relentlessly tries to secure a visa to travel to America to find her child. But many forces she cannot see conspire to stop her from making the journey.
At twenty-nine, Adel stumbles upon the note that spirals her world into a race for the truth. Who was her biological mother? What secrets lay buried in her past? With trepidation and excitement tugging her heart, Adele travels to Haiti despite Marge's warnings of impending dangers. Each step takes her closer to unearthing the truth, but revealing secrets may lead to unforseen consequences.
Micki Berthelot Morency is the Haitian-American author of the debut novel The Island Sisters that was released in June 2023. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and the Institute for Writers. Her diverse background deeply enriches her storytelling. As an advocate for women and children, she aimes to amplify the voices of those often unheard through her writings. Micki lives in Florida with her husband, where they raised their daughters.
Silk Jazmyne has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and numerous years experience writing, editing, and publishing speculative fiction. Her work appears online and in print at Black Girl Nerds, Midnight & Indigo, African Writer Magazine, and Ekphrastic Exhibition in Tandem: Back | Forth. She is a reading, writing, drinking student of life who loves narrative in all its forms.
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