The family

Family tree

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Cast

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  The author's mother · Haiti

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  The author · Haiti, Sendai, America, Tokyo

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  The author's sibling

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  The author's sibling

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  The author's partner · America, Tokyo

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Glossary

lakou

A shared family courtyard — the cluster of homes and lives around it; the social heart of a rural Haitian family.

tadaima (ただいま)

Said on arriving home — literally 'just now'; the everyday announcement that you have returned.