"This compelling narrative of the inner mind's spiritual reckoning with God on the mission fields and mountainsides of Haiti is beautifully and masterfully revealed through a naked candor and self reflection seldom seen in writing. There are no Oompa Loompas or Everlasting Gobstoppers, but, no doubt, Yolantha Harrison Pace could give even the wily Willy Wonka a run for his money as the reluctant hero and pied piper of hope in the chocolate factory of Haiti. If you have ever wondered what it is like to be born of the black American experience and then to go on the mission field, then this book is a MUST READ "-Neo Blaqness

"I believe that when you are in love, you tell everybody. So I'm telling everybody. See I love you Haiti, because you always love me back." This quote by an amazing author, Yolantha Harrison-Pace, is but one of many profound words of wisdom in her book, Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope. Having, myself, worked many years in ministry, I thought this book was going to be a familiar quick read, informative, thoughtful, and spiritual. After three days of reading, sleeping with it, dreaming about it, and soul searching because of it, I found this book to be life changing. It is spiritually, culturally and emotionally provocative, consciously intrusive and radically transparent. Yolantha Harrison-Pace has you in stitches one moment, tears the next, and often finding yourself standing right beside her saying, "did you hear that?" or "did you see that?" or "who said that?" She is definitely guilty of writing a truthful book about how each of us, as African Americans, have to come face to face with our Americanisms and, moreover, question our beliefs to the point of evoking an authentic conversation with God to confirm whether we need to say "Yes" again to our own Calling. In Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope, the subtitle being One American's Rude Awakening, Yolantha Harrison-Pace is true to form, skillfully exposing the many gods we pay homage to in our Americanism: the god of criticism and alienation; self-medication, ....the god of negligence and oversight. While reading this book, which I believe is destined to be a classic, new definitions emerged for the words missionary, hope, even food and love. Truly Yolantha's mission and commission was to ignite hope in the starving, abandoned and disenfranchised mountain children of Haiti. The reward she received for her obedience is summed up in this quote: "Everything I learned about the real ME, I learned on the mission field." I recommend this book as a MUST READ for current missionaries and those curious or contemplating work in the mission field, and, for sure, anyone looking for a clarity of purpose. Yolantha makes it perfectly clear in Haiti: The AfterShocks of Hope, that we all have a Calling. The Call is the invitation to work the doing power of God. God is love and love is doing. "This is the Call, the Call to doing Love," says Yolantha. A masterpiece from the first page, this book will return your spirit to the days when there was no Caller ID, when you answered the Call simply because the phone rang, and by not filtering the doing of God, discovering your real self." -Dr. Verlean Hailey

This book is a potluck dinner of essays, ghetto-tales and poetic insights into the exquisite richness of being Black in White America. Within the multitude of fallacies spawned by political correctness, liberals and conservatives alike often ask, "What's black got to do with it? When are you people gonna get over yourselves?" In today's enlightened era where the use of the word Mammy is considered an embarrassment, where 'shoutin' in church' is not done by "Educated Negroes," and where the subtle power of hairnet wearing school lunch ladies is ignored... Yolantha Harrison-Pace has extracted from her journals a bodacious buffet from her heritage, fittingly entitled, Shout, Mammy, Shout Where the Thunder Hides. This second edition release is the sequel journal to Wing-Plucked Butterfly, her first book about her journey out of domestic violence. Shout, Mammy, Shout Where the Thunder Hides is a deeper look into the value of women and their gift as a life source. Nobody is anybody alone. ... Shout, Mammy, Shout embraces the feminine power bestowed on Ms Pace by the two most important men in her life for whom this book is dedicated: her father Raphael Harrison, Sr. and her grandfather, Professor E.H. Henry.

From the writer of Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope comes this full color illustrative companion volume HERE'S TO HAITI: Kiss America Kiss, depicting the missionary trips of Yolantha Harrison Pace and her interactions with the people of the nation. In her own words Yolantha writes: "Many of the things I see in Haiti are difficult for my heart to comprehend. I am not an artist, but in order not to cry and in order to pass the time when what I have witnessed keeps me from sleeping, I doodle. It helps to mend my broken heart. This book is full of my doodles of love for Haiti." Authored by Yolantha Harrison-Pace Designed by Neo Blaqness Illustrated by Yolantha Harrison-Pace Literary editor Neo Blaqness