The 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed some 300,000 people and caused widespread destruction; it also revealed flaws in the impoverished nation's infrastructure that will take a generation from which to recover. Award-winning writer Dany Laferrière was there when the earthquake hit; this book documents the day of, and the days and weeks following, the tragedy: vignettes of the shock, rage, and grief experienced by Haitians, the acts of heroism he witnessed, and the author's own sense of survivor guilt.