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<b>In an </b><b>“eye-opening memoir” (<i>People</i>)</b><b> “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (<i>The New Yorker</i>), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.</b><br /><br />Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm.<br /> <br /> Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her father’s u