ORANGES is semi-autobiographical and about growing up queer in a fundamentalist family
BEFORE SHE MET ME was one of the few books that made me angry; one of the main characters disappears for part of the book and then comes back and something horrible happens and I felt totally manipulated by the storyline
KRIK? KRAK! is apparently how traditional Haitian storytellers begin (spoken) stories; it's a semi-intertwined collection of short stories about life in and away from Haiti in various difficult times