Urbannan pens adventure thriller set in WWI era to 2000s Haiti

by Larry Chowning – 

Stan Hovey of Urbanna has recently published his second book on Haiti, a historical fiction of island life entitled, “The One Haitian.”

As a child he moved to Haiti in 1942 when his father and family were sent there as part of his father’s job with U.S. Forest Service to assist in managing forests.

With the development of synthetic rubber in the United States in the mid-1940s it led to cancellation of the U.S. federally sponsored Haiti forestry program and the loss of 100,000 Haitian jobs. This resulted in an uprising and Hovey’s family was escorted off the island to safety with military assistance.

His second book is a fictional story about the life of one Haitian man named Bergemann Edner. Hovey weaves Edner’s life around the past backdrop of Haitian history and a contemporary backdrop of time between 1915 (World War I period and when U.S. Marines first arrived to occupy the country) to the early 2000s.

Hovey said “The book is based on fact and I have been to all the locations in Haiti that are mentioned…”