![]() ![]() As a result, Mireille’s body and survival are used as instruments of negotiation between selfish and prideful men. The reason Mireille spends two weeks in a small, hot box of a room or tied to the Commander’s bed is that her father refuses to pay her ransom, convinced the kidnappers will not stop extorting him if he submits. I would never forget that sound, the empty whisper of soft hands preparing to do hard things.” Before her first rape, she describes her impression of the man: “He rubbed his hands together. We are witnesses to her intimate thoughts during the 13 days she is held captive, when her body proves “breakable but unbroken.” Her recollection of every sensory detail captures the horror of her abuse by the Commander and the men under his command. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mireille is visiting her parents’ estate in Port-au-Prince with her husband and baby when she gets abducted. She frames it as a fairy tale: “Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones.” From the first sentence, we know Mireille has found a way to craft her story to make it bearable. ![]()
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