When the Mapou SingsBy: Nadine Pinede Infused with magical realism, this story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self determination in 1930s Haiti. Sixteen year old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to learn from the mountains and the forests around them, to carve, to sew, to draw, and to sing the songs of the Mapou, the sacred trees that