Rose-Anne Clermont on cracks in the wall
Photograph by Carlos Barria/Reuters.
Rose-Anne Clermont, a Haitian-American writer and journalist first came to Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998. Her writing has appeared in International Herald Tribune, Die Zeit, Spiegel Online, The Root and The Women’s International Perspective and on her blog, Currents Between Shores. Her memoir, Buschgirl, will be published in German by Random House/C. Bertelsmann in fall 2010. Rose-Anne lives in an old red row house with her German husband and three sons and helps support 22 other children at The Clermont Center for Homeless Children in Jacmel, Haiti.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Dear Rosie:
The story is beautiful. Just listen to voice bought tears to my eyes.Thank God you are the voice that will keep the story alive.
Good work.
Ninnin
March 16th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Elegant thoughts about the rate and standards of decay. Cracks and wrinkles don’t tell you enough about what to expect, except that you sort of long for the in retrospect safer/simpler time before they appeared.
March 17th, 2010 at 2:59 am
You seamlessly travel between distinct and yet linked cultural psyches. What is proof of strength to one translates as inevitable demise to another. That crack in your kitchen wall, telling tales of war and lifelines. Beautiful imagery!