Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage, and vengeance.

In riveting prose, Shacochis builds a complex and disturbing story about the coming of age of America in a pre-9/11 world.

Set over fifty years and in four countries backdropped by different wars, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis' magnum opus that brings to life, through the mystique and allure of history, an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today

This is a sympathetic, street-level pilgrimage through a revolutionary society in transition, and the story of a passionate, struggling, sometimes discouraged but always proud country, told by citizens whose confidence in their revolution is both enduring and conflicted. The narrative recounts the author's six trips to Cuba between 1991 and 1999. Updated with an epilogue that details Ripley's seventh trip to Cuba in July 2000, this edition shows, through is firsthand experiences, observations, and conversations with ordinary Cubans, how he strives to understand and reveal Cuba, its revolution, and his attachment to both.