Sweet Undoings (Deep Vellum Publishing) by Yanick Lahens, translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover, moves through the interconnected lives of Haitians contending with corruption, murder, and internecine intrigue. Told from multiple perspectives, set in Port-au-Prince, Lahens’s study of the Haitian capital does not shy away from a sense of its embedded difficulties. Exploring the ways in which violent crime holds immediate repercussions for the lives of everyone it touches, Sweet Undoings generates circumstances in which none of the novel’s protagonists can hide. Glover, the book’s translator, has also translated the prominent Francophone Caribbean authors Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Frankétienne, and René Depestre.