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The trilingual anthology How to Write an Earthquake /Comment écrire /Mou pou 12 Janvye, edited by Beaudelaine Pierre and Nataša Ďurovičová, offers an invaluable account of the Haitian earthquake of January 2010. The anthology stands as an implicit alternative to the mainstream conceptions of relevant “public” literary nonfiction writing in the United States and argues that the creative process of the individual authors offers a path not only for individual but also for social and even global understanding of a public trauma.