In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.Originally published by les ?ditions du remue-m nage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-C lie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.