You Were Watching from the Sand
A stylistically and conceptually daring collection that winds from fantastical horror to mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its sharp, compassionate view the material, spiritual, and emotional lives of Haitian people.
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Juliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer with a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard College. In 2018, she won Harvard's Le Baron Russell Briggs Undergraduate Fiction Prize. She spends much of her free time baking, because the measuring it requires is the best she's ever been at anything math-related. She splits her time between Iowa City, Iowa, where she is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and South Florida, where she was raised after immigrating from Haiti. Juliana currently resides in Boynton Beach, Florida.
"Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything that You Were Watching from the Sand will mark only the first chapter in an important body of work."--Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
"The debut short-story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised, Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy vividly portrays adolescent life and dreams in Miami's Haitian community. Gritty, bizarre, and poetic, the stories speak from each narrator's often-unexpected viewpoint, bringing to life what are usually grim, challenging personal situations... Throughout, we see a talented young writer beginning to strut her stuff and promising more to come." --Richard & Sally Price, New West Indian Guide
