A Slippery Land

Poverty was the only life 15-year-old Fania Dieusel knew with her family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but she was happy, her days were peaceful, and her dream of an education was on the verge of being fulfilled. All that changed in less than a minute on a January afternoon in 2010 when a devastating earthquake shook Haiti, toppling her entire world.. The quake propels Fania on a six-year odyssey from an oppressive orphanage, to the streets of Port-au-Prince, to the harsh life of a squatter in La Saline, one of Haiti's most desperate slums. A feisty and resilient old widow rescues and befriends Fania and teaches her the skills she needs to survive in the slum in the face of overwhelming adversity.. Will the aftershocks ever end?