The Immaculate Invasion

“Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion , the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.” — Chicago Tribune   Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti.   In 1994, the United States embarked on Operation Uphold Democracy, a response to the ov